The Madness of Vision: On Baroque Aesthetics Volume 44

ISBN-13: 9780821420935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 184 str.

Christine Buci-Glucksmann; Dorothy Z. Baker

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Christine Buci-Glucksmann s"The Madness of Vision" is one of the mostinfluential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque.Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, theauthor asserts the materiality of the body and world in her aesthetictheory. All vision is embodied vision, with the body and the emotionscontinually at play on the visual field. Thus vision, once considered aclear, uniform, and totalizing way of understanding the material world, actually dazzles and distorts the perception of reality.
In each of the nine essays that form "The Madness of Vision" Buci-Glucksmann develops her theoretical argument via a study of a majorpainting, sculpture, or influential visual image Arabic script, Bettini s The Eye of Cardinal Colonna, Bernini s "Saint Teresa" and his 1661fireworks display to celebrate the birth of the French dauphin, Caravaggio s"Judith Beheading Holofernes, " the Paris arcades, and Arnulf Rainer s selfportrait, among others and deftly crosses historical, national, and artisticboundaries to address Gracian s" El Criticon"; Monteverdi s opera "Orfeo;"the poetry of Hafiz, John Donne, and Baudelaire; as well as baroquearchitecture and Anselm Kiefer s Holocaust paintings. In doing so, Buci-Glucksmann makes the case for the pervasive influence of the baroquethroughout history and the continuing importance of the baroque incontemporary arts."