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9781855759145

Art

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  • ISBN13:

    9781855759145

  • ISBN10:

    1855759144

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-12-30
  • Publisher: Karnac Books

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Summary

Each of the contributors addresses the theoretical questions by pursuing a definite artistic problem, including a close look at the relation between the image and the object in Hitchcock's Vertigo, the sexual aesthetics of Caravaggio, the artistic pen of Barthes, and how Cronenberg's film Crash functions as a sinthome.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface: Way beyond the Pleasure Principle
The Insistence of the Image: Hitchcock's Vertigop. 3
Meaning on Trial: Sublimation and The Readerp. 29
History and the Flesh: Caravaggio's Sexual Aestheticp. 49
On Critics, Sublimation, and the Drive: The Photographic Paradoxes of the Subjectp. 75
Sublimation and Symptomp. 103
A Young Man without an Ego: A Study on James Joyce and the Mirror Stagep. 123
Art as Prosthesis: Cronenberg's Crashp. 147
"Se faire etre une photographie": The Work of Joel-Peter Witkinp. 165
Indexp. 181
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