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Narrating the catastrophe : an artist's dialogue with Deleuze and Ricoeur / Jac Saorsa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saorsa, Jac.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ricœur, Paul.
- Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
- Deleuze, Gilles.
- Art and philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 222 pages: illustrations ; 24cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol; Chicago : Intellect, 2011.
- Summary:
- An extraordinary collaboration between contemporary art and critical discourse, Narrating the Catastrophe guides readers through unfamiliar textual landscapes where "being" is defined as act rather than form. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's notion of intersubjective narrative identity as well as the catastrophe theory of Gilles Deleuze, Jac Saorsa establishes an alternative perspective from which to interpret and engage with the world around us. A highly original take on an important issue in contemporary critical debate, this book will appeal to all those interested in visual arts and philosophy. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Act and Form 13
- Introduction: first words
- The journey begins
- A meaningful psychosis
- What is philosophy?
- What is art?
- The nature of the concept
- The concept visualised
- What is science? The pre-eminence of the rhizome over the metaphor
- Root, stem and rhizome
- 1st Articulation
- The rhizome as a conceptual construct: map and tracing
- 2nd Articulation: Interpreting Process in the Flux: The Return of Professor Challenger 35
- Chapter 2 Lost Worlds, Unfamiliar Landscapes: Conceptualising the Text 49
- The Text and the 'Other'
- Language
- Hermeneutics
- Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) -Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
- Hermeneutics and Visual Understanding Hans George Gadamer (1900-2002)
- Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005)
- 3rd Articulation: The Dance of the Metaphor 75
- Chapter 3 Language and the Line: The Geometrical Abstract Line of Becoming 81
- Drawing on Conversation
- Introduction
- The relevance and irrelevance of language
- Textual bilingualism
- Interlanguage
- Structure and the interpretation of the text
- Depth
- From looking to seeing: Alice and the architectural illusion
- Narrative identity and 'The Idiot'
- Chapter 4 Drawing Out Deleuze 103
- Documenting the Stone: The artist's voice
- Practice and process: i: a passion for the line
- ii: process and its histories
- iii: the phenomenographical stone
- iv: the drawing act
- v: time, movement, becoming, cause, effect and 'confatalia'
- The shift: structure to figuration.
- 4th Articulation: Mapping the Mark 121
- Chapter 5 The 'Appleyness' of the Apple: On Cézanne and the Figure 129
- Head: Revisiting the shift: from figuration towards structure
- Sensation
- Love in two-dimensions
- Superficial anatomy
- Anatomical architecture
- The consequence of the heart
- Autoethnography: the echoing artist's voice
- Chapter 6 Ageless Children and Amputees 151
- Amputee: In the valley of interpretation
- An artist for scientists, a scientist for artists
- Reflexion, interpretation appropriation
- Reflexive philosophy, narrative identity and the teleological context
- Time, self, and appropriation beyond narrative -Representation, figuration and the figure: a folded text
- 5th Articulation: Bony Landmarks 173
- Chapter 7 Circling the Figure 183
- The Dyer Drawing: Circling the Figure (Author's note)
- The Dyer drawing and the drawing act
- John Deakin
- Deakin and Muybridge: subject, object, form, function
- Moving towards sensation
- Practice: through which the child becomes the man
- An autoethnographic account
- The 'Diagram'
- The 'Catastrophe'
- Rhythm
- The Body Without Organs
- Exit the artist
- Chapter 8 Figuring the Circle: The Final Refrain 203
- The hermeneutic circle
- The Deleuzean 'Refrain'
- Shadows of the Self and the eternal paradox: The autoethnographic trap
- Last words
- The interpretive journey of Narrating the Catastrophe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-222)
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 1841504602
- 9781841504605
- OCLC:
- 711050766
- Publisher Number:
- 99947773754
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