Portrait

by Nancy, Jean-Luc

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Title Statements

Full title :Portrait / Jean-Luc Nancy.

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Fordham University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780823279975, 0823279979, 9780823279968, 0823279960, 9780823281466, 0823281469
oclc:on1038009686
LC Classification:N7575
Dewey Decimal:704.942

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Portrait; Resemblance; Recall; Look; The Other Portrait; L'altro ritratto; Character; The Eye; Visageity; Mimesis; Withdrawn Presence; Ipseity; Theophany; Revelation; Divine Abandonment; Dis- figuration; Eclipse; Infinite Detachment; Coda I; Coda II; Coda III; Notes; List of Figures