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050 00 $aBH172$b.B8313 2013
082 00 $a709.03/201$223
084 $aPHI001000$aPHI018000$aPHI035000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aBuci-Glucksmann, Christine,$eauthor.
240 10 $aFolie du voir.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe madness of vision :$bon baroque aesthetics /$cChristine Buci-Glucksmann ; translated by Dorothy Z. Baker.
264 1 $aAthens, Ohio :$bOhio University Press,$c[2013]
264 4 $c©2013
300 $axxii, 172 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aSeries in continental thought ;$vno. 44
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 145-153) and index.
520 $a"Christine Buci-Glucksmann's The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the author asserts the materiality of the body and world in her aesthetic theory. All vision is embodied vision, with the body and the emotions continually at play on the visual field. Thus vision, once considered a clear, uniform, and totalizing way of understanding the material world, actually dazzles and distorts the perception of reality. In each of the nine essays that form The Madness of Vision Buci-Glucksmann develops her theoretical argument via a study of a major painting, sculpture, or influential visual image--Arabic script, Bettini's "The Eye of Cardinal Colonna," Bernini's Saint Teresa and his 1661 fireworks display to celebrate the birth of the French dauphin, Caravaggio's Judith Beheading Holofernes, the Paris arcades, and Arnulf Rainer's self-portrait, among others--and deftly crosses historical, national, and artistic boundaries to address Graciǹ's El Criticn̤; Monteverdi's opera Orfeo; the poetry of Hafiz, John Donne, and Baudelaire; as well as baroque architecture and Anselm Kiefer's Holocaust paintings. In doing so, Buci-Glucksmann makes the case for the pervasive influence of the baroque throughout history and the continuing importance of the baroque in contemporary arts"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aAesthetics, Modern$y17th century.
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / Essays.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aBaker, Dorothy Zayatz,$etranslator.
765 0 $aBuci-Glucksmann, Christine$tFolie du voir$dParis : Galilée, c1986.$h250 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.$kDébats$w(DLC) 87108333