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Title: Groove of the Poem: Reading Philippe Beck, The
Author: RANCIERE JACQUES
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/11/2016
Imprint: UNIVOCAL PUBLISHING
Price: $37.00
Publishing status: Active
Music is the brute that shows. It is the avowal of materials, And stutters between its clanging of things. How should one think this musical groove of the poem whose back and forth motion shuffles the material of ordinary language and revives the frozen speech of old chants? This question by renowned French thinker Jacques Ranciere is the entry point for his earnest and careful reading of one of France’s most singular and important contemporary poets. For Ranciere, Philippe Beck sets himself the task of a poetry after poetry whereby Beck re-writes and transforms the poems of the past, reanimating faded genres, poetizing the prose of popular tales and even commentaries regarding poems. To read and follow this groove traced as such cannot simply be done by way of taking the poems as objects of study. It supposes a dialogue regarding what these poems attempt to do as well as an idea of a poetry which serves as their foundation. This book on Philippe Beck is thus also a book made with him. Jacques Ranciere is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII.
His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Nights of Labor, Staging the People, and The Emancipated Spectator. University of Minnesota PressUNIPUG-BIB9781937561703Being a SkullSite, Contact, Thought, SculptureDidi-Huberman, GeorgesA01BCB102Univocaleng80127203.2PHI000000 0501/11/2016NP17.00ZWORLDThrough a careful study of artist Giuseppe Penone’s work regarding a sculptural and haptic process of contact with place, thought, and artistic practice, Georges Didi-Huberman examines various modes of thinking by way of being. Didi-Huberman sketches a sweeping view of how artists have worked with conceptions of the skull, that is, the mind, and ruminates on where thought is indeed located. What would a sculpture look like that has as its task to touch thought? For the French philosopher and Art Historian, Georges Didi-Huberman, this is the central question that permeates throughout the work of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone.
Through a careful study of Penone’s work regarding a sculptural and haptic process of contact with place, thought, and artistic practice, Didi-Huberman takes the reader on a journey through various modes of thinking by way of being. Taking Penone’s artwork Being the river as a thematic starting point, Didi-Huberman sketches a sweeping view of how artists through the centuries have worked with conceptions of the skull, that is, the mind, and ruminates on where thought is indeed located. From Leonardo da Vinci to Albrecht Durer, Didi-Huberman guides us to the work of Penone and from there, into the attempts of a sculptor whose works strives to touch thought. What we uncover is a sculptor whose work becomes a series of traces of the site of thought. Attempting to trace, by way of a series of frottages, reports, and developments, this imperceptible zone of contact. The result is a kind of fossil of the brain: the site of thought, namely, the site for getting lost and for disproving space. Sculpting at the same time what inhabits as well as what incorporates us.
Series: Univocal
ISBN: 9781937561697
Weight: 136g
Dimension: 127mm X 203mm
Pages: 150