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Dossier Chris Marker: The Suffering Image is a study of a late-modern chiasmus, impersonal-personal agency, as it comes to expression in the works of French artist and filmmaker, Chris Marker, as the dynamic interplay of political and subjective agency. As chiasmus, the complementary halves of this often-apocalyptic dynamis (a semi-catastrophic, temporal or historical force-field) also - arguably - secretly agree to meet, through the work of art, in the futural. Consistent with the classical figure of concordia discors, these irreducible warring aspects of life experience are, in fact, resolved in an atemporal and ahistorical moment that inhabits the work of art from its inception. This redemptive aspect in art is also the ultimate gesture of the artwork as mask or screen for forces that reside beyond the frame of the image or work, as its proverbial Other, or within the frame, as other to that Other. A topological knot, or ontological problem, it is this very conflict that animates all of Marker's extensive works - filmic and otherwise.

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Author:   Gavin Keeney
Publisher:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.20cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781443841825

ISBN 10:   144384182
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   26 November 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Gavin Keeney is an editor, writer, and critic. His most recent publications include: Art as Night : An Art-Theological Treatise (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), a survey of meta-painting from Velazquez to Gerhard Richter; and Else-where : Essays in Art, Architecture, and Cultural Production 2002-2011 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). He has taught in architecture schools in the US and Australia and is the Creative Director of Agence 'X', an artists' and architects' re-representation bureau.

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