Mavor Black and Blue

The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jete, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9546-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Postwar French works that register disturbing truths about loss and regret, and violence and history, through aesthetic refinement anchor this exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and comprehend the incomprehensible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mavor, Carol

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations xi

Introduction. First Things: Two Black and Blue Thoughts 1

Author's Note I. A Sewing Needle inside a Plastic and Rubber Suction Cup Sitting on a Watch Spring; or, An Object for Seeing Nothing 17

1. Elegy of Milk, in Black and Blue: The Bruising of La Chambre claire 22

2. "A" is for Alice, for Amnesia, for Anamnesis: A Fairy Tale (Almost Blue) Called La Jetée 53

3. Happiness with a Long Piece of Black Leader: Chris Marker's Sans soleil 77

Author's Note II. She Wrote Me 111

4. "Summer Was inside the Marble": Alain Resnais's and Magurite Duras's Hiroshima mon amour 114

List of Illustrations 161

Notes 169

Index 191

Über Autor(innen)

Carol Mavor is Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott; Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina Viscountess Hawarden; and Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs, all also published by Duke University Press.