LEADER 03810nam 22006735 450 001 9910826928103321 005 20210717004601.0 010 $a0-8232-8146-9 010 $a0-8232-7996-0 010 $a0-8232-7997-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823279975 035 $a(CKB)4100000004839390 035 $a(OCoLC)1038009686 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse69075 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5402068 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001974509 035 $a(DE-B1597)555325 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823279975 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004839390 100 $a20200723h20182018 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPortrait /$fJean-Luc Nancy 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aLit Z 300 $aTranslated from the French. 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2018. 311 0 $a0-8232-7994-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface to the English-Language Edition --$tIntroduction. The Subject of the Portrait --$tThe Autonomous Portrait --$tResemblance --$tRecall --$tLook --$tL?altro ritratto --$tCharacter --$tThe Eye --$tVisageity --$tMimesis --$tWithdrawn Presence --$tIpseity --$tTheophany --$tRevelation --$tDivine Abandonment --$tDis-figuration --$tEclipse --$tInfinite Detachment --$tCoda I --$tCoda II --$tCoda III --$tNotes --$tFigures 330 $aThis book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. To Nancy, the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and forcefulness. It can identify an individual, but it can also express the dynamics by means of which its subject advances and withdraws. The book consists of two extended essays written a decade apart but in close conversation, in which Nancy considers the range of aspirations articulated by the portrait. Heavily illustrated, it includes a newly written preface bringing the two essays together and a substantial Introduction by Jeffrey Librett, which places Nancy?s work within the range of thinking of aesthetics and the subject, from religion, to aesthetics, to psychoanalysis. Though undergirded by a powerful grasp of the philosophical and psychoanalytic tradition that has rendered our sense of the subject so problematic, Nancy?s book is at heart a delightful, unpretentious reading of three dozen portraits, from ancient drinking mugs to recent experimental or parodic pieces in which the artistic representation of a sitter is made from their blood, germ cultures, or DNA. The contemporary world of ubiquitous photos, Nancy argues, in no way makes the portrait a thing of the past. On the contrary, the forms of appearing that mark the portrait continue to challenge how we see the bodies and representations that dominate our world. 606 $aPortraits$xPhilosophy 610 $aArt theory. 610 $aArt. 610 $aChristianity. 610 $aDeconstruction. 610 $aFiguration. 610 $aPainting. 610 $aPortrait. 610 $aRepresentation. 610 $aSubject. 615 0$aPortraits$xPhilosophy. 676 $a704.942 700 $aNancy$b Jean-Luc$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0157114 701 $aClift$b Sarah$01598734 701 $aLibrett$b Jeffrey S$01622251 701 $aSparks$b Simon$01110578 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826928103321 996 $aPortrait$93956005 997 $aUNINA