Tag: Aesthetics
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Jacques Derrida’s La vérité en peinture (Flammarion 1978)
Jacques Derrida’s La vérité en peinture (The Truth in Painting), published by Flammarion in 1978, gathers a set of essays that rethink the relation between philosophy and the visual arts. The title, borrowed from a remark by Paul Cézanne, signals the provocation at the heart of the book: if painting is said to bear or…
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Jacques Rancière’s The Politics of Images (2003; French title Le destin des images)
Jacques Rancière’s The Politics of Images (2003; French title Le destin des images) asks a fundamental question: who decides what can be seen and what can be said in art? For Rancière, art is always shaped by a “regime” — a system of rules that organizes the relationship between the visible and the speakable. This…
Geronimo Cristobal 