Seeing Things: Vision, Perception and Interpretation in French Studies

by Simon Kemp (Editor), 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

Simon Kemp is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His research interests include economic psychology, history of psychology, memory, and earthquake research.