Seeing Things: Vision, Perception, and Interpretation in French Studies

by Flora Tristan, Simon Kemp (Editor), Professor Libby Saxton (Editor)

Libby Saxton/Simon Introduction--Martin 'Que pourraiton montrer d'autre que ce qu'on voit?': Duras and the Photography of the Real--Nick Baudrillard's Aesthetic--Patrick Neither Here nor Merleau-Ponty on Vision and Existence--Stamatina On Seeing in Max Ernst's Objects of Vision--Rakhee Eyes Wide Open, Eyes Wide Defining the Surrealist Eye--Hannah Visions of the Muse in Michel Leiris's L'Age d'Homme--Alistair Seeing Double/Hearing In(s)anity in the Aumonymes of Robert Desnos--Claire Resisting the Whole The Gaze, and Reading Autobiogrpahies by Nathalie Sarraute and Georges Perec--Sonya Baudelaire and The Art of the Unfinished--Ariane Hugo Realism and Symbolism in the Myth of Paris--Blandine The Mesmerizing Salome seen by Moreau and Mallarme--Jean Seeing the Present--Emma Screening Touch and Vision in Contemporary Cinema (Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois Blanc)--Carol O' Picturing Zazies a gogo.

287 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Flore Celestine Thérèse Henriette Tristán y Moscoso better known as Flora Tristan was a French-Peruvian socialist writer and activist. She made important contributions to early feminist theory, and argued that the progress of women's rights was directly related with the progress of the working class. Her theories had a trong influence on Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Charles Fourier. She wrote several works, the best known of which are Peregrinations of a Pariah (1838), Promenades in London (1840), and The Workers' Union (1843).

Tristan was also the grandmother of the painter Paul Gauguin.