Figures of History

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-7956-3
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 112 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 191 mm, Gewicht: 204 g

In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Rancière continues his reflections on the representative power of works of art. How does art render events that have spanned an era? What roles does it assign to those who enacted them or those who were the victims of such events?

Rancière considers these questions in relation to the works of Claude Lanzmann, Goya, Manet, Kandinsky and Barnett Newman, among others, and demonstrates that these issues are not only confined to the spectator but have greater ramifications for the history of art itself.

For Rancière, every image, in what it shows and what it hides, says something about what it is permissible to show and what must be hidden in any given place and time. Indeed the image, in its act of showing and hiding, can reopen debates that the official historical record had supposedly determined once and for all. He argues that representing the past can imprison history, but it can also liberate its true meaning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rancière, Jacques

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rose, Julie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

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 Professor
Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Paris-St. Denis. His many books
include The Politics of Aesthetics, Aesthetics and Its Discontents and The
Future of the Image.