Discourse, figure
"Provoked in part by Lacan's influential seminars in Paris, Discourse, Figure distinguishes between the meaningfulness of linguistic signs and the meaningfulness of plastic arts such as painting and sculpture. Lyotard argues that because rational thought is discursive and works of art are inherently opaque signs, certain aspects of artistic meaning such as symbols and the pictorial richness of painting will always be beyond reason's grasp."--Page [2] of jacket.
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- Full title :Discourse, figure / Jean-François Lyotard ; translated by Antony Hudek and Mary Lydon ; introduction by John Mowitt.
Summary
"Provoked in part by Lacan's influential seminars in Paris, Discourse, Figure distinguishes between the meaningfulness of linguistic signs and the meaningfulness of plastic arts such as painting and sculpture. Lyotard argues that because rational thought is discursive and works of art are inherently opaque signs, certain aspects of artistic meaning such as symbols and the pictorial richness of painting will always be beyond reason's grasp."--Page [2] of jacket.
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- Publication Date:2011
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication:Minneapolis [Minn.]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011
Notes
Originally published: Discours, figure. Paris : Klincksieck, 1971.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxiii, 516 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780816645657, 0816645655, 9780816645664, 0816645663
- oclc:ocn475453749
- LC Classification:B820
- Dewey Decimal:194
Table of Contents
Introduction : The gold-bug / John Mowitt -- Discourse, figure : The bias of the figural -- Signification and designation : Dialectics, index, form ; Recessus and hyper-reflection ; Linguistic sign? ; Effect of thickness in the system ; Thickness on the margins of discourse ; The no and the position of the objects ; Opposition and difference -- Veduta on a fragment of the "history" of design -- The other space : The line and the letter ; "The dream-work does not think" ; Desire's complicity with the figural ; Desire in discourse ; Fiscourse digure : The utopia behind the scenes of the phantasy ; Return, auto-illustration, double reversal -- Appendix : Jean-François Lyotard's French translation of "De Verneinung" by Sigmund Freud.
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