Rancière Figures of History

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8138-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 112 Seiten, E-Book

In this important new book the leading philosopher JacquesRancière continues his reflections on the representative powerof works of art. How does art render events that have spanned anera? What roles does it assign to those who enacted them or thosewho were the victims of such events?
Rancière considers these questions in relation to the works ofClaude Lanzmann, Goya, Manet, Kandinsky and Barnett Newman, amongothers, and demonstrates that these issues are not only confined tothe spectator but have greater ramifications for the history of artitself.
For Rancière, every image, in what it shows and what ithides, says something about what it is permissible to show and whatmust be hidden in any given place and time. Indeed the image, inits act of showing and hiding, can reopen debates that the officialhistorical record had supposedly determined once and for all. Heargues that representing the past can imprison history, but itcan also liberate its true meaning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rancière, Jacques

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rose, Julie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Unforgettable
1. In Front of the Camera Lens
2. Behind the Window
3. The Threshold of the Visible
4. In the Face of Disappearance
Senses and Figures of History
1. Of Four Senses of History
2. History and Representation: Three Poetics of Modernity
3. On Three Forms of History Painting
Films cited

Über Autor(innen)

Jacques Rancière is a leading French philosopher and ProfessorEmeritus of Philosophy at the University of Paris-St. Denis. Hismany books include The Politics of Aesthetics, Aesthetics andIts Discontents and The Future of the Image.