Hand to hand : listening to the work of art / Jean-Louis Chretien ; translated with an introduction by Stephen E. Lewis.
"Jean-Louis Chretien looks to poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response. For Chretien, we live by responding to the call of experience with words, gestures, and expressions, even silence; in the proc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Perspectives in continental philosophy ;
no. 32. |
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| Summary: | "Jean-Louis Chretien looks to poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response. For Chretien, we live by responding to the call of experience with words, gestures, and expressions, even silence; in the process, we can become painfully aware of limits and failings." "In luminous meditations on works by Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine, Keats, and other artists, Chretien, shows how art created by the "talking hands of painters" and the "secretly lucid" voices of poets helps us confront the finitude of the human body."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xxvi, 184 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0823222896 9780823222896 082322290X 9780823222902 |
| ISSN: | 1089-3938 ; |