Memoirs of the blind : the self-portrait and other ruins /
By: Derrida, Jacques
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Contributor(s): Musée du Louvre.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993Description: x, 141 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226143074; 9780226143071:; 0226143082 (pbk.).Uniform titles: Mémoires d'aveugle. English. Subject(s): Drawing -- Philosophy | Visual perception | Blind in art | Aesthetics | Percepción visual | Ciegos en el arte | Estética | Drawings Special subjects PortraitsDDC classification: 741.01 Summary: An exploration of issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing, which offers detailed readings of a collection of images from the prints and drawings department of the Louvre. The works under consideration depict blindness--fictional, historical, and biblical.
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 741.01 DER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Lost Checked out | 29/08/2022 | 0050087 |
French ed. originally published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Louvre Museum, Paris, Oct. 26, 1990-Jan. 21, 1991.
An exploration of issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing, which offers detailed readings of a collection of images from the prints and drawings department of the Louvre. The works under consideration depict blindness--fictional, historical, and biblical.