Search results for "Self-portrait"
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'[I]t wasn’t in the picture and is not': Blind Spots and Vanishing Points in Irish Poetical Self-Portraits
2016
International audience; Pictoriality and a propensity for self-examination and self-representation are characteristic of the poetry of Louis MacNeice, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon. In many a poem, these four contemporary Irish poets try to capture their own portraits in words and images, through highly visual poems often inspired by paintings. This paper first examines how these poets use images and invest paintings, how verbal and iconic texts interact in their creations and to what extent self-exegesis is made possible and more successful through ekphrasis. With reference to Jacques Derrida’s essay on self-portraiture—Memoirs of the Blind: Self-Portraits and Other Ruins—thi…
W poszukiwaniu Toż-Samego i Innego w malarstwie Edvarda Muncha
2016
The subject of the interpretation of the presence of Emannuela Levinass the Same and the Other is Edvard Munchs painting . His self-portraits touch the problem of existence. The artist appears in the created painters space. The problem of identity is a ground for philosopher, painter and poets interpretation. Who is the Same and what a mask does he hide behind? The consideration of the description and analysis of paintings are confronted with thoughts of Rilke and the philosophy of Heidegger and Levinas. “Identity is confirmed in what is Said and Written” you can expand on what is Painted.
Self-portrait of an Orator as a Poet : images and Poetic references in Aelius Aristides' work
2022
Aelius Aristides is one of the major representatives of the Second Sophistic : his speeches are exemplary of the development of epidictic rhetoric in the imperial period. Everything in his work, including what he himself says on the subject, gives the image of an orator devoted body and soul to rhetoric and confident in the powers of prose. This is also the portrait that most studies since the 19th century have confirmed.However, poetry plays an important role in Aristide's speeches : they contain many poetic images and references. Moreover, Aristide writes poems and gives us fragments of them. He does not hesitate to refer to his own verses in speeches from both the beginning and the end o…
This Is Not Vivian. The Photographer as a Form of Life
2019
In Semiotics, the notion of form of life seems to be associated to crossing a boundary, be it the one between dimensions of language (usage/rule), between cognitive aspects of a discourse (ethical/aesthetic) or generic dimensions of living (particular/general) in such a way that its own perception (and therefore its heuristic relevance) seems subordinate to the possibility of comparing those that initially appear to us as heterogeneous textualities. In order to detect the form of life it is necessary to go beyond the text, whether this leads to a practice or another text, and therefore a discourse. But is there a possibility that a text does not limit itself to speaking about a form of life…
The wounded self-portrait as an expression of the experiential dimension of disease
2020
The present article aims at giving an ethical-anthropological interpretation of the body wounded by the disease, under the perspective of the wounded self-portrait, a genre selected by some artists who, between the nineteenth and the twentieth century, pictured their physical or psychological malaise (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Munch, Bacon, Klee). Getting acquainted with artistic language, particularly when it arises from personal experience, has an educational value for healthcare professional, as it helps to catch “the history from below”, as Roy Porter called it, which is the history from the patient’s perspective. Dans cet article les auteurs donnent une interprétation anthropologique au corps h…
Identité composite et métissage dans « Letter to Friends » de Leontia Flynn
2015
In “Letter to Friends” (Profit and Loss, 2011), a long epistolary poem inspired by Letters from Iceland (1937) by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, Leontia Flynn paints an introspective and retrospective self-portrait in which she examines all the elements that have formed her existence until her recent maternity. The identity that emerges from this intimate inventory is plural, “mixed” or “multi-breed” (Édouard Glissant), the cultural mix resulting not only from history, globalization and travel but also from temporal, linguistic and psychological shifts or ruptures.Flynn’s lyrical and polyphonic (if not cacophonous) piece, bursting with asides, debating a multitude of subjects in an infinit…
Irish Self-Portraits: The Artist in Curved Mirrors
2018
International audience; Though Ireland can pride itself on its national self-portrait collection, housed at the University of Limerick, very little research has been done on self-portrayal in Irish literature and visual arts. This absence of scientific investigation is all the more surprising as, as Marie Bourke observes, “self-portrayal is a complex act. The private nature of the task, and the intensity of self-scrutiny that it entails, has challenged artists through the ages. It’s not just a question of self-examination, but a process recording a likeness, the depiction of a psychological state, or social status, or the representation of abstract ideas” (Marie Bourke, Exploring Art at the…
Contemporary Irish poets’ pictorial (self-)portraits
2012
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Między autobiografią a przypowieścią. Glosa o paru tajemnicach "Domu, snu i gier dziecięcych" Juliana Kornhausera
2017
W artykule podjęto próbę rozpoznania strategii autobiograficznych prezentacji obecnych w twórczości Juliana Kornhausera. Autor stara się opisać fragmenty biografii autora Origami, skupiając się na charakterystycznych dla poety sposobach dyskretnego mówienia o sobie (dystans narracyjny, rozdźwięk pomiędzy narratorem a bohaterem, ukrywanie zarówno postaci bohatera, jak i rzeczywistych osób pod zasłoną inicjału). Punktem wyjścia dla rozważań i głównym przedmiotem opisu jest proza autobiograficzna Dom, sen igry dziecięce Juliana Kornhausera, której lektura konfrontowana jest z zapiskami autobiograficznymi opublikowanymi przez syna poety, Jakuba, na łamach czasopism literackich. Ważny element ca…
L’autoreprésentation féminine dans la bande dessinée pornographique
2017
What happens when feminine authors investigate porn-comics and draw themselves in it ? Self-depiction of feminine authors conveys something original in a field where it usually is a way to express a private fantasy. From feminist comics of the 70s to the most recent porn comics, authors’ bodies are not sex objects anymore, they are the subject of a narration. Self-depiction is a new material for porn-comics and gives sincerity to the stories, it may be a way to express political views. Self-fantasy, sex confession or physical metamorphosis are the multiple ways self-depiction provides the feminine author to strengthen her authorship. Implicitly those self-depicted porn-authors draw up an in…