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ISBN-10: 0823225410
ISBN-13: 9780823225415
Edition: 3rd 2005
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The Ground of Image offers more recent and more focused reflections on the nature of representation and art, especially painting. -- "Bookforum" If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced assuperficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributedwith exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrustedby philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as spectacle and proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspects, their paradoxes, their flat but receding spaces. What is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image--which is always only an impenetrable surface? What… secrets are concealed in the ground or in the figures of an image--which never does anything but show just exactly what it is and nothing else? How does the immanence of images open onto their unimaginable others, their imageless origin? In this collection of writings on images and visual art, Jean-Luc Nancyexplores such questions through an extraordinary range of references. FromRenaissance painting and landscape to photography and video, from the image of Roman death masks to the language of silent film, from Cleopatra to Kant and Heidegger, Nancy pursues a reflection on visuality that goes far beyond the many disciplines with which it intersects. He offers insights into the religious, cultural, political, art historical, and philosophical aspects of the visual relation, treating such vexed problems as the connection between image and violence, the sacred status of images, and, in a profound and important essay, the forbidden representation of the Shoah. In the background of all theseinvestigations lies a preoccupation with finitude, the unsettling forces envisaged by the images that confront us, the limits that bind us to them, the death that stares back at us from their frozen traits and distant intimacies. In these vibrant and complex essays, a central figure in European philosophy continues to work through some of the most important questions of our time.