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CHRISTINE BBUCCI--GLLUCCKSSMAANNN THE MADNESS of VISIoN oN BARoQUE AESTHETICS TRANSLATED BY DOROTHY Z. BAKER SERiES iN cONTiNENTAL THOugHT The Madness of Vision SerieS in Continental thought editorial Board Ted Toadvine, Chairman, University of Oregon Elizabeth A. Behnke, Study Project in Phenomenology of the Body David Carr, Emory University James Dodd, New School University Lester Embree, Florida Atlantic University José Huertas-Jourda, Wilfrid Laurier University† Joseph J. Kockelmans, Pennsylvania State University William R. McKenna, Miami University Algis Mickunas, Ohio University J. N. Mohanty, Temple University Dermot Moran, University College Dublin Thomas Nenon, University of Memphis Rosemary Rizo-Patron de Lerner, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima Thomas M. Seebohm, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz Gail Soffer, Rome, Italy Elizabeth Ströker, Universität Köln† Nicolas de Warren, Wellesley College Richard M. Zaner, Vanderbilt University international advisory Board Suzanne Bachelard, Université de Paris† Rudolf Boehm, Rijksuniversiteit Gent Albert Borgmann, University of Montana Amedeo Giorgi, Saybrook Institute Richard Grathoff, Universität Bielefeld Samuel Ijsseling, Husserl-Archief te Leuven Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University Werner Marx, Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg† David Rasmussen, Boston College John Sallis, Boston College John Scanlon, Duquesne University Hugh J. Silverman, State University of New York, Stony Brook Carlo Sini, Università di Milano Jacques Taminiaux, Louvain-la-Neuve D. Lawrence Wieder† Dallas Willard, University of Southern California The Madness Of Vision .................................. On Baroque Aesthetics christine buci-glucksmann translated by dorothy z. baker ohio university Press / athens Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701 ohioswallow.com © 2013 by Ohio University Press All rights reserved To obtain permission to quote, reprint, or otherwise reproduce or distribute material from Ohio University Press publications, please contact our rights and permissions department at (740) 593-1154 or (740) 593-4536 (fax). Printed in the United States of America Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper.∞ ™ 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Buci-Glucksmann, Christine, author. [Folie du voir. English] The madness of vision : on baroque aesthetics / Christine Buci-Glucksmann ; translated by Dorothy Z. Baker. pages cm. — (Series in continental thought ; no. 44) Summary: “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 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 major painting, sculpture, or influential visual image—Arabic script, Bettini’s “The Eye of Cardinal Colonna,” Bernini’s Saint Teresa and his 1661 fireworks display to celebrate the birth of the French dauphin, Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes, the Paris arcades, and Arnulf Rainer’s self-portrait, among others—and deftly crosses historical, national, and artistic boundaries to address Gracin’s El Criticn; Monteverdi’s opera Orfeo; the poetry of Hafiz, John Donne, and Baudelaire; as well as baroque architecture and Anselm Kiefer’s Holocaust paintings. In doing so, Buci-Glucksmann makes the case for the pervasive influence of the baroque throughout history and the continuing importance of the baroque in contemporary arts”— Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8214-2019-5 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-8214-4437-5 (electronic) 1. Aesthetics, Modern—17th century. I. Baker, Dorothy Zayatz, translator. II. Title. BH172.B8313 2013 709.03'201—dc23 2012032541 For Michel de Certeau, a friend of all “madnesses” of thought, without whom this book would be otherwise. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if see- ing would infect with me madness, I madly wanted that madness. —Maurice Blanchot C O n T e n T s List of Illustrations xi Translator’s Preface xiii Author’s Preface xv Prelude: A “Je ne Sais Quoi . . .” xvii 1. The Stage of Vision 1 2. The Work of the Gaze 22 3. Seeingness; or, The Eye of the Phantasm 36 4. The Rhetorical Telescope I: Il Mirabile; il Furore 56 5. The Rhetorical Telescope II: Figures of Nothingness 79 6. Palimpsests of the Ungazeable 94 Finale: The Burning of Vision 114 Notes 123 Bibliography 145 Index 155
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