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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Nancy, Jean-Luc (1940-2021)
Ferrari, Federico (1969-....)
Titre(s) : Being nude [Texte imprimé] : the skin of images / Jean-Luc Nancy and Federico Ferrari ; translated by Anne O'Byrne and Carlie Anglemire
Traduction de : Nus sommes
Publication : New York : Fordham University Press, 2014
Description matérielle : v, 128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note(s) : "What does it mean to be nude? What does the nude do? In a series of constantly surprising
reflections, Jean-Luc Nancy and Federico Ferrari encounter the nude as an opportunity
for thinking in a way that is stripped bare of all received meanings and preconceived
forms. In the course of engagements with twenty-six separate images, the authors show
how the nudes produced by painters and photographers expose this bareness of thought
and leave us naked on the verge of a sense that is always nascent, always fleeting,
on the surface of the skin, on the surface of the image. While the nude is a symbol
of truth in philosophy and art alike, what the nude definitively and uniquely reveals
is unclear. In Being Nude: The Skin of Images, the authors argue that the nude is
always presented as both vulnerable in its exposure and shy of conceptualization,
giving a sense of the ultimate ineffability of the meaning of being. Although the
nude represents the revealed nature of truth, nude figures hold a part of themselves
back, keeping in reserve the reality of their history, parts of their present selves,
and also their future possibilities for change, development, and demise. Skin is itself
a type of clothing, and stripping away exterior layers of fabric does not necessarily
lead to grasping the truth. In this way, the difference between being clothed and
being nude is diminished. The images that inspire the authors to contemplate the nudity
of being show many ways in which one can and cannot be nude, and many ways of being
in relation to oneself and to others, clothed and unclothed"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : O'Byrne, Anne. Traducteur
Anglemire, Carlie. Traducteur
Sujet(s) : Nu
Nudité
Sémiotique et art
Indice(s) Dewey :
704.942 1 (23e éd.) = Beaux-arts et arts décoratifs - Thème des nus
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780823256204 (hardback). - ISBN 0823256200 (hardback). - ISBN 9780823256211
(paper). - ISBN 0823256219 (paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43901052x
Notice n° :
FRBNF43901052
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
