Code: 04939567

Black and Blue

Name: Black and Blue
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 04939567
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by Carol Mavor

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 216
Publisher: Duke University Press, 2012
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Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel Proust are inspirations and subjects of Carol Mavor's exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible. At the book's heart are one book and three films, Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Chris Marker's La Jetee and Sans soleil, and Marguerite Duras's and Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour, post-war French works that register disturbing truths about loss and regret, and violence and history, through aesthetic refinement. Personal recollections punctuate Mavor's dazzling interpretations of these and many other works of art and criticism. Childhood memories become Proust's "small-scale contrivances," tiny sensations that open onto panoramas. Mavor's mother lost her memory to Alzheimer's, and Black and Blue is framed by the author's memories of her mother and effort to understand what it means to not be recognized by one to whom you were once so known.

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Book category Books in English The arts The arts: general issues Theory of art

516.83 zł

Full title: Black and Blue
Subtitle: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetee, Sans Soleil, and Hiroshima Mon Amour
Author: Carol Mavor
Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 216
EAN: 9780822352525
ISBN: 0822352524
ID: 04939567
Publisher: Duke University Press
Weight: 708 g
Dimensions: 216 × 140 mm
Date of publishing: 25. September 2012