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100			_aNancy, Jean-Luc
245			_aPleasure in drawing
260			_bFordham University Press, _c2013 _aNew York :
300			_axiii, 116 p. ; _c22 cm
365			_b25.00 _cUSD _d85.90
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references. Translated from the French.
520			_aOriginally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium of drawing in light of the question of form--of form in its formation, as a formative force, as a birth to form. In this sense, drawing opens less toward its achievement, intention, and accomplishment than toward a finality without end and the infinite renewal of ends, toward lines of sense marked by tracings, suspensions, and permanent interruptions. Recalling that drawing and design were once used interchangeably, Nancy notes that "drawing" designates a design that remains without project, plan, or intention. His argument offers a way of rethinking a number of historical terms (sketch, draft, outline, plan, mark, notation), which includes rethinking drawing in its graphic, filmic, choreographic, poetic, melodic, and rhythmic sense. If drawing is not reducible to any form of closure, it never resolves a tension specific to drawing but allows the pleasure of drawing to come into appearance, which is also the pleasure in drawing, the gesture of a desire that remains in excess of all knowledge. Situating drawing in these terms, Nancy engages a number of texts in which Freud addresses the force of desire in the rapport between aesthetic and sexual pleasure, texts that also turn around the same questions concerning form in its formation, form as a formative force. Between the sections of the text, Nancy has placed a series of "sketchbooks" on drawing, composed of a broad range of quotations on art from different writers, artists, or philosophers.
650			_aArt Criticism & Theory
650			_aArt Techniques Drawing
650			_aDrawing Philosophy
650			_aAesthetics
650			_aDesire
650			_a Freud
650			_aGesture
650			_aGiles Deleuze
650			_aMimesis
650			_a Priapism
650			_a Rene Char
650			_a Sketch
650			_a Vasari
700			_aArmstrong, Philip _etr.
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