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Thinking out of sight : writings on the arts of the visible / Jacques Derrida ; edited by Ginette Michaud, Joana Masó, and Javier Bassas ; with new translations by Laurent Milesi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Derrida, Jacques, author.
- Series:
- The France Chicago Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Derrida, Jacques--Interviews.
- Derrida, Jacques.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Arts--Philosophy.
- Arts.
- Philosophy, French--20th century.
- Philosophy, French.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois ; London, England : The University of Chicago Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today—and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thinking out of Sight brings to light Derrida’s most inventive ideas about the making of visual artworks. The book is divided into three sections. The first demonstrates Derrida’s preoccupation with visibility, image, and space. The second contains interviews and collaborations with artists on topics ranging from the politics of color to the components of painting. Finally, the book delves into Derrida’s writings on photography, video, cinema, and theater, ending with a text published just before his death about his complex relationship to his own image. With many texts appearing for the first time in English, Thinking out of Sight helps us better understand the critique of representation and visibility throughout Derrida’s work, and, most importantly, to assess the significance of his insights about art and its commentary.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Editors’ Foreword
- Part I. The Traces of the Visible
- The Spatial Arts: An Interview by Peter Brunette and David Wills
- Thinking Out of Sight
- Trace and Archive, Image and Art
- Part II. Rhetoric of the Line: Painting, Drawing
- To Illustrate, He Said
- The Philosopher’s Design: An Interview
- Drawing by Design
- Pregnances
- To Save the Phenomena: For Salvatore Puglia
- Four Ways to Drawing
- Ecstasy, Crisis: An Interview with Valerio Adami and Roger Lesgards
- Color to the Letter
- The “Undersides” of Painting, Writing, and Drawing: Support, Substance, Subject, Suppost, and Supplice
- Part III. Spectralities of the Image: Photography, Video, Cinema, and Theater
- Aletheia
- Videor
- The Ghost Dance: An Interview by Mark Lewis and Andrew Payne
- Cinema and Its Ghosts: An Interview by Antoine de Baecque and Thierry Jousse
- The Sacrifi ce
- Marx Is (Quite) Somebody
- The Survivor, the Surcease, the Surge
- Notes
- Bibliography on the Arts and Architecture
- Filmography
- Notes on Editors and Translators
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-59002-X
- OCLC:
- 1243534391
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