The Madness of Vision: On Baroque Aesthetics

by Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Dorothy Z. Baker (Translator)

Overview

In The Madness of Vision, Buci-Glucksmann asserts the important of embodied vision in nine studies of paintings, sculptures, and images. She integrates the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics to make the case for the pervasive influence of the baroque.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780821420195
Publisher:	Ohio University Press
Publication date:	01/27/2013
Series:	Series In Continental Thought , #44
Edition description:	1
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Christine Buci-Glucksmann is a philosopher,
professor emerita of the University of Paris VIII, and the author of many books in the fields of political philosophy,
aesthetics, contemporary art, the baroque, ornament, Asian art, and virtual art. Her most recent works include
Esthétique de l’éphémère (2003), Au-delà
de la mélancholie (2005), Philosophie de l’ornement: D’Orient en Occident
(2008), and Une femme philosophe (2008), and two of her books have previously been translated into English: Gramsci and the State (1980)
and Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity (1994).

Dorothy Z. Baker is a professor of English at the University of Houston,
where she teaches translation studies and American literature. She has translated the poetry of Pierre Reverdy and Armand Robin. In addition, she is the author of Mythic Masks in Self-Reflexive
Poetry and America’s Gothic Fiction and the editor of Poetics in the Poem and The Silent and Soft Communion.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations xi

Translator's Preface xiii

Author's Preface xv

Prelude: A "Je ne Sais Quoi…" xvii

1 The Stage of Vision 1

2 The Work of the Gaze 22

3 Seeingness; or, The Eye of the Phantasm 36

4 The Rhetorical Telescope I: Il Mirabile; il Furore 56

5 The Rhetorical Telescope II: Figures of Nothingness 79

6 Palimpsests of the Ungazeable 94

Finale: The Burning of Vision 114

Notes 123

Bibliography 145

Index 155