Flesh of My Flesh
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- Synopsis
- Silverman (rhetoric and film studies, University of California, Berkeley) argues for a return to analogy, of seeing ourselves as part of a whole. She sees life as a conflict between the desire for unity and the need to be unique. While drawing from a number of sources, including Freud, Rilke, Proust, Leonardo Da Vinci and Nietzsche, her primal metaphors are from Ovid's Metamorphosis, especially the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. In the first half of the book, she concentrates on nineteenth century redactions of the myth. The ways in which artists and philosophers tackled the dichotomy is shown as entwined with a sense of selfhood but also a sense of mortality. In the second half, Silverman uses the examples of Malick's film The Thin Red Line, the "intervention" created by James Coleman for a 2002 Leonardo exhibit at the Louvre and, lastly, the photographs/paintings of Gerhardt Richter which include images and distortions of death. The book is illustrated throughout, along with a group of colored plates. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780804773362
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780804762076, 9780804762083
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/16/17
- Copyrighted By:
- the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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