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Black and Blue – The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jete, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour de Carol Mavor

Black and Blue – The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jete, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour

Autor Carol Mavor
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 sep 2012
Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel Proust are inspirations and subjects of Carol Mavor's exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible. At the book's heart are one book and three films, Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Chris Marker's La Jetée and Sans soleil, and Marguerite Duras's and Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour, post-war French works that register disturbing truths about loss and regret, and violence and history, through aesthetic refinement.Personal recollections punctuate Mavor's dazzling interpretations of these and many other works of art and criticism. Childhood memories become Proust's "small-scale contrivances," tiny sensations that open onto panoramas. Mavor's mother lost her memory to Alzheimer's, and Black and Blue is framed by the author's memories of her mother and effort to understand what it means to not be recognized by one to whom you were once so known.
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ISBN-13: 9780822352716
ISBN-10: 0822352710
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 113 illustrations, including 18 in colour
Dimensiuni: 141 x 223 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

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"In Black and Blue, Carol Mavor lives with the wounding memories of Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the regime of hate in American racial history. She looks at herself through a kaleidoscope of texts and images whose pain her own writing seeks to alleviate. The reader witnesses conflicted emotions circulating within a gallery of figures defining the melancholic tenor of critical and creative labors of the last three decades." Tom Conley, author of An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France

"Black and Blue is only partly, though brilliantly, about the colours of its title. It’s avowedly indebted to novelist-philosopher William H. Gass’s extraordinary 1976 essay On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, and shares that book’s super-subjective love of lists and tendency to intuitive digressions.... Black and Blue has a poetic logic of mourning, and its rage to make too much sense.” - Brian Dillon, Art Review, October 2012

"Carol Mavor has developed a unique way of responding to images and to their uses by artists and writers: with appetite and fastidious delicacy, she brings the full sensorium synaesthetically into play. Black and Blue is a highly wrought montage, an original attempt to open up the meanings of visual objects in relation to experience, and a startlingly daring account of a symbolic field. It resonates with—and pays tribute to—such key art historical works as Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas and William Gass's prose poem, On Being Blue."—Marina Warner, author of Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
"In Black and Blue, Carol Mavor lives with the wounding memories of Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the regime of hate in American racial history. She looks at herself through a kaleidoscope of texts and images whose pain her own writing seeks to alleviate. The reader witnesses conflicted emotions circulating within a gallery of figures defining the melancholic tenor of critical and creative labors of the last three decades." Tom Conley, author of An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France "Black and Blue is only partly, though brilliantly, about the colours of its title. It's avowedly indebted to novelist-philosopher William H. Gass's extraordinary 1976 essay On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, and shares that book's super-subjective love of lists and tendency to intuitive digressions... Black and Blue has a poetic logic of mourning, and its rage to make too much sense." - Brian Dillon, Art Review, October 2012 "Carol Mavor has developed a unique way of responding to images and to their uses by artists and writers: with appetite and fastidious delicacy, she brings the full sensorium synaesthetically into play. Black and Blue is a highly wrought montage, an original attempt to open up the meanings of visual objects in relation to experience, and a startlingly daring account of a symbolic field. It resonates with - and pays tribute to - such key art historical works as Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas and William Gass's prose poem, On Being Blue." - Marina Warner, author of Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights

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Exquisite, image-filled ruminations on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible