Christine Buci-Glucksmann's The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the author asserts the materiality of the body and world in her aesthetic theory. All vision is embodied vision, with the body and the emotions continually at play on the visual field. Thus vision, once considered a clear, uniform, and totalizing way of understanding the material world, actually dazzles and distorts...
Christine Buci-Glucksmann's The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. In...
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...
Christine Buci-Glucksmann s"The Madness of Vision" is one of the mostinfluential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque.Integrating the...
