The Madness of Vision - On Baroque Aesthetics

In The Madness of Vision, Buci-Glucksmann asserts the important of embodied vision in nine studies of paintings, sculptures, and images. She integrates the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics to make the case for the pervasive influence of the baroque.

Summary

In The Madness of Vision, Buci-Glucksmann asserts the important of embodied vision in nine studies of paintings, sculptures, and images. She integrates the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics to make the case for the pervasive influence of the baroque.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Buci-Glucksmann
• Assisted by: Dorothy Z. Baker (Translation)
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.2014
• EAN: 9780821420935
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2093-5
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Series in Continental Thought; Series in Continental Thought
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries