Author: Jacques Rancière
Publisher: Navayana
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 147
ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-89059-03-3
Description
To resemble was long taken to be the peculiarity of art, while an infinite number of spectacles and forms of imitation were proscribed from it. In our day, not to resemble is taken for the imperative of art, while photographs, videos and displays of objects similar to everyday ones have taken the place of abstract canvases in galleries and museums.
But this formal imperative of non-resemblance is itself caught up in a singular dialectic. For there is growing disquiet: does not resembling involve renouncing the visible? Or does it involve subjecting its concrete richness to the operations and artifices whose matrix resides in language?
A counter-move then emerges: what is contrasted with resemblance is not the operativeness of art, but material presence, the spirit made flesh, the absolutely other which is also absolutely the same.
Contents
Sources of Texts
1. The Future of the Image
2. Sentence, Image, History
3. Painting in the Text
4. The Surface of Design
5. Are Some Things Unrepresentable?
Notes
Index