Portrait by Jean-Luc Nancy, Sarah Clift, Simon Sparks, Jeffre... - 9780823279951

Name: Portrait by Jean-Luc Nancy, Sarah Clift, Simon Sparks, Jeffre... - 9780823279951
Brand: Fordham University Press

Fordham University Press

PortraitAuthor(s): Jean-Luc Nancy, Sarah Clift, Simon Sparks, Jeffrey S. Librett\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823279951, 978-0823279951\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n 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 a.