Derrida explores issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing, while offering detailed readings of an extraordinary collection of images he selected from the prints and drawings department of the Louvre. 22 color plates. 49 halftones.
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Derrida explores issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing, while offering detailed readings of an extraordinary collection of images he selected from the prints and drawings department of the Louvre. 22 color plates. 49 halftones.
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Add this copy of Memoirs of the Blind: the Self-Portrait and Other Ruins to cart. $29.48, fair condition, Sold by Magers and Quinn Booksellers rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by University of Chicago Press.
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Acceptable. May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing box or discs. Damaged item.
Add this copy of Memoirs of the Blind: the Self-Portrait and Other Ruins to cart. $72.82, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1993 by University Of Chicago Press.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 900grams, ISBN: 9780226143088.
Add this copy of Memoirs of the Blind: the Self-Portrait and Other Ruins to cart. $91.76, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by University of Chicago Press.
Add this copy of Memoirs of the Blind: the Self-Portrait and Other Ruins to cart. $166.75, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1993 by Univ of Chicago Pr.
The book is very interesting for the occasion from which it is born: an exhibition held at the Louvre Museum between 1990 and 1991, with the title "Memoirs of the Blind". Every year a writer, poet, philosopher became creator and curator of an exhibition with paintings from all the collections of the Louvre Museum, starting not from a historical o critical point of wiew, but using the paintings for demonstrating a theory, a point of view ("Taking Sides" is the title of the series of exhibition). Derrida's thinking route here around the theme of the vision, analyzed, with the typical sense of paradox of the french philosopher, starting from the absence of vision, from the Blind. The conclusion is that painting requires a sort of blindness, painting is, in fact, marking a line in total blindness, like a Blind that, as in manies of the paintings selected and present in this catalogue, beg the arm towards the object.
