Between the Sign and the Gaze
Download or Read eBook Between the Sign and the Gaze PDF written by Herman Rapaport and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Herman Rapaport |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781501729591 |
ISBN-13 | : 1501729594 |
Rating | : 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Between the Sign and the Gaze by : Herman Rapaport
Book excerpt: A woman turns into a piece of furniture (Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest); a writer of children's books takes photos of naked little girls (Lewis Carroll); Mont Blanc becomes the maternal breast (Shelley); Hamlet mistakes Ophelia for a phallus (Lacan's Hamlet seminar); and mom turns out to have thermonuclear arms (Laurie Anderson's United States). Reviewing the ways in which women have been fantasized in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western culture, Herman Rapaport offers a series of brilliant insights into the concept of the fantasm in modern art.