The madness of vision : on baroque aesthetics / Christine Buci-Glucksmann ; translated by Dorothy Z. Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buci-Glucksmann, Christine.

Contributor:

Baker, Dorothy Zayatz.

Series:

Series in Continental thought ; 44.

Series in continental thought

Standardized Title:

Folie du voir. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Modern--17th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 172 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English. Translated from the French.

Summary:

"Christine Buci-Glucksmann's The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the author asserts the materiality of the body and world in her aesthetic theory. All vision is embodied vision, with the body and the emotions continually at play on the visual field. Thus vision, once considered a clear, uniform, and totalizing way of understanding the material world, actually dazzles and distorts the perception of reality. In each of the nine essays that form The Madness of Vision Buci-Glucksmann develops her theoretical argument via a study of a major painting, sculpture, or influential visual image--Arabic script, Bettini's "The Eye of Cardinal Colonna," Bernini's Saint Teresa and his 1661 fireworks display to celebrate the birth of the French dauphin, Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes, the Paris arcades, and Arnulf Rainer's self-portrait, among others--and deftly crosses historical, national, and artistic boundaries to address Graciǹ's El Criticn̤; Monteverdi's opera Orfeo; the poetry of Hafiz, John Donne, and Baudelaire; as well as baroque architecture and Anselm Kiefer's Holocaust paintings. In doing so, Buci-Glucksmann makes the case for the pervasive influence of the baroque throughout history and the continuing importance of the baroque in contemporary arts"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Translator's Preface

Author's Preface

Prelude: A "Je ne Sais Quoi …"

1. The Stage of Vision

2. The Work of the Gaze

3. Seeingness

or, The Eye of the Phantasm

4. The Rhetorical Telescope I: Il Mirabile

il Furore

5. The Rhetorical Telescope II: Figures of Nothingness

6. Palimpsests of the Ungazeable

Finale: The Burning of Vision

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821444375

0821444379

OCLC:

884016797