An exploration of issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing, which offers detailed readings of a collection of images from the prints and drawings department of the Louvre. The works under consideration depict blindness--fictional, historical, and biblical.
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An exploration of issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing, which offers detailed readings of a collection of images from the prints and drawings department of the Louvre. The works under consideration depict blindness--fictional, historical, and biblical.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 900grams, ISBN: 9780226143088.
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Book is in good condition. Minimal signs of wear. It May have markings or highlights but kept to only a few pages. May not come with supplemental materials if applicable.
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The book is very interesting for the occasion from which it is born: an exhibition held at the Louvre Museum between 1990 and 1991, with the title "Memoirs of the Blind". Every year a writer, poet, philosopher became creator and curator of an exhibition with paintings from all the collections of the Louvre Museum, starting not from a historical o critical point of wiew, but using the paintings for demonstrating a theory, a point of view ("Taking Sides" is the title of the series of exhibition). Derrida's thinking route here around the theme of the vision, analyzed, with the typical sense of paradox of the french philosopher, starting from the absence of vision, from the Blind. The conclusion is that painting requires a sort of blindness, painting is, in fact, marking a line in total blindness, like a Blind that, as in manies of the paintings selected and present in this catalogue, beg the arm towards the object.
