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The Pen and the Eye: The Politics of the Gazing Body

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Vision and Textuality

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I open this section, dedicated to the entanglement of vision and textuality as it affects the interaction between discourse and politics, with two quotations from two different genres of contemporary artistic production, both working on the reconciliation of the word and the image, respectively a movie referring to a founding textual tradition (the Bible) and a novel questioning the grounds of visual activity.

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  1. Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude (London and Boston, MA: Faber & Faber, 1982), p. 138.

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  2. See the articles ‘Vision’ and ‘Word’ in the Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Bible, a translation and adaptation of A. van den Bjorn’s Bijbels Woordenboek, by Louis F. Hartman (Turnhout: Usines Brepols, 1963).

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  3. Linda Nochlin, The Politics of Vision. Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society (New York: Harper & Row, 1989).

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  6. See the introduction to Linda Nochlin, Women, Art and Power and Other Essays (New York: Harper & Row, 1988).

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  7. For an exhaustive bibliography on feminist art history, see Thalia Gouma-Peterson and Patricia Matthew, ‘The Feminist Critique of Art History’, The Art Bulletin, LXIX, 3 (Sept. 1987), pp. 326–57.

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  8. See Georges Bataille, The Story of the Eye (New York: Urlzen Books, 1977).

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  9. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Pantheon Books, 1971).

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  10. See Marcel Detienne, ‘L’écriture et les nouveaux objets intellectuels en Grèce’, Les savoirs de l’écriture en Grèce ancienne (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1988) pp. 7–26, esp. p. 10.

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  11. John Bender, Imagining the Penitentiary. Fiction and Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England (Chicago, IL and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987), p. xv.

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  12. See Maurice Merleau-Ponty, L’oeil et l’esprit (Paris: Gallimard, 1964),

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  13. and The Visible and the Invisible (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1968).

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  1. Françoise Lucbert
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

    Stephen Melville (Teaches Art History) (Teaches Art History)

  2. Université de Montréal, Canada

    Bill Readings (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature) (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature)

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Lucbert, F. (1995). The Pen and the Eye: The Politics of the Gazing Body. In: Melville, S., Readings, B. (eds) Vision and Textuality. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24065-4_12

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