The Pleasure in Drawing / Jean-Luc Nancy.
Nancy, Jean-Luc, author.; Armstrong, Philip, contributor.
2013
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Title The Pleasure in Drawing / Jean-Luc Nancy.
Author Nancy, Jean-Luc, author.
ISBN 9780823252329
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823252329
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (128 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823252329 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 741.01/17
Summary Originally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium of drawing in light of the question of form-of form in its formation, as a formative force, as a birth to form. In this sense, drawing opens less toward its achievement, intention, and accomplishment than toward a finality without end and the infinite renewal of ends, toward lines of sense marked by tracings, suspensions, and permanent interruptions.Recalling that drawing and design were once used interchangeably, Nancy notes that drawing designates a design that remains without project, plan, or intention. His argument offers a way of rethinking a number of historical terms (sketch, draft, outline, plan, mark, notation), which includes rethinking drawing in its graphic,filmic, choreographic, poetic, melodic, and rhythmic senses.If drawing is not reducible to any form of closure, it never resolves a tension specific to itself. Rather, drawing allows the pleasure in and of drawing, the gesture of a desire that remains in excess of all knowledge, to come to appearance. Situating drawing in these terms, Nancy engages a number of texts in which Freud addresses the force of desire in the rapport between aesthetic and sexual pleasure, texts that also turn around questions concerning form in its formation, form as a formative force. Between the sections of the text, Nancy has placed a series of "sketchbooks" on drawing, composed of a broad range of "ations on art from different writers, artists, or philosophers.
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Added Author Armstrong, Philip, contributor.
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Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780823250936
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Frontmatter
Contents
Translator's Note
Preface to the English-Language Edition
Form
Sketchbook 1
Idea
Sketchbook 2
Formative Force
Sketchbook 3
The Pleasure of Drawing
Sketchbook 4
Forma Formans
Sketchbook 5
From Self Toward Self
Sketchbook 6
Consenting to Self
Sketchbook 7
Gestural Pleasure
Sketchbook 8
The Form-Pleasure
Sketchbook 9
The Drawing/Design of the Arts
Sketchbook 10
Mimesis
Sketchbook 11
Pleasure of Relation
Sketchbook 12
Death, Sex, Love of the Invisible
Sketchbook 13
Ambiguous Pleasure
Sketchbook 14
Purposiveness Without Purpose
Sketchbook 15
The Line's Desire
Sketchbook 16
Notes

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