Between the Sign and the Gaze
| Author | : Herman Rapaport |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2018-07-05 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781501729591 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1501729594 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (594 Downloads) |
Download or read book Between the Sign and the Gaze 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. 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.
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