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Portrait / Jean-Luc Nancy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Lit ZPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (160 p.) : 36Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823279944
  • 9780823279975
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.942 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English-Language Edition -- Introduction. The Subject of the Portrait -- The Look of the Portrait -- The Autonomous Portrait -- Resemblance -- Recall -- Look -- The Other Portrait -- L'altro ritratto -- Character -- The Eye -- Visageity -- Mimesis -- Withdrawn Presence -- Ipseity -- Theophany -- Revelation -- Divine Abandonment -- Dis-figuration -- Eclipse -- Infinite Detachment -- Coda I -- Coda II -- Coda III -- Notes -- Figures
Summary: This book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. To Nancy, the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and forcefulness. It can identify an individual, but it can also express the dynamics by means of which its subject advances and withdraws.The book consists of two extended essays written a decade apart but in close conversation, in which Nancy considers the range of aspirations articulated by the portrait. Heavily illustrated, it includes a newly written preface bringing the two essays together and a substantial Introduction by Jeffrey Librett, which places Nancy's work within the range of thinking of aesthetics and the subject, from religion, to aesthetics, to psychoanalysis.Though undergirded by a powerful grasp of the philosophical and psychoanalytic tradition that has rendered our sense of the subject so problematic, Nancy's book is at heart a delightful, unpretentious reading of three dozen portraits, from ancient drinking mugs to recent experimental or parodic pieces in which the artistic representation of a sitter is made from their blood, germ cultures, or DNA.The contemporary world of ubiquitous photos, Nancy argues, in no way makes the portrait a thing of the past. On the contrary, the forms of appearing that mark the portrait continue to challenge how we see the bodies and representations that dominate our world.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English-Language Edition -- Introduction. The Subject of the Portrait -- The Look of the Portrait -- The Autonomous Portrait -- Resemblance -- Recall -- Look -- The Other Portrait -- L'altro ritratto -- Character -- The Eye -- Visageity -- Mimesis -- Withdrawn Presence -- Ipseity -- Theophany -- Revelation -- Divine Abandonment -- Dis-figuration -- Eclipse -- Infinite Detachment -- Coda I -- Coda II -- Coda III -- Notes -- Figures

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This book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. To Nancy, the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and forcefulness. It can identify an individual, but it can also express the dynamics by means of which its subject advances and withdraws.The book consists of two extended essays written a decade apart but in close conversation, in which Nancy considers the range of aspirations articulated by the portrait. Heavily illustrated, it includes a newly written preface bringing the two essays together and a substantial Introduction by Jeffrey Librett, which places Nancy's work within the range of thinking of aesthetics and the subject, from religion, to aesthetics, to psychoanalysis.Though undergirded by a powerful grasp of the philosophical and psychoanalytic tradition that has rendered our sense of the subject so problematic, Nancy's book is at heart a delightful, unpretentious reading of three dozen portraits, from ancient drinking mugs to recent experimental or parodic pieces in which the artistic representation of a sitter is made from their blood, germ cultures, or DNA.The contemporary world of ubiquitous photos, Nancy argues, in no way makes the portrait a thing of the past. On the contrary, the forms of appearing that mark the portrait continue to challenge how we see the bodies and representations that dominate our world.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)