Portrait

Nancy, Jean-Luc. (Author). Project Muse. (Added Author).

Summary: This work examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. The text is written from the perspective that 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. It consists of two extended essays written a decade apart but in close conversation, in which the author 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, which places the author's work within the range of thinking of aesthetics and the subject, from religion, to aesthetics, to psychoanalysis.

Record details

ISBN: 0823281469
ISBN: 9780823281466
ISBN: 0823279960
ISBN: 9780823279968
ISBN: 0823279952
ISBN: 9780823279951 (paper : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780823279944 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0823279979
ISBN: 9780823279975
Physical Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)
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electronic resource
Publisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; PORTRAIT; Title; Copyright; 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Portrait; Resemblance; Recall; Look; The Other Portrait; L'altro ritratto; Character; The Eye; Visageity; Mimesis; Withdrawn Presence; Ipseity; Theophany; Revelation; Divine Abandonment; Dis- figuration; Eclipse; Infinite Detachment; Coda I; Coda II; Coda III; Notes; List of Figures
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.