Artworks that Look at You (and Themselves) Reflections on the Gaze in Lacan, Didi-Huberman, and Pfaller

Auteurs-es

  • Marius Bomholt Universidad Complutense de Madrid

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.30827/tnj.v3i2.13945

Mots-clés :

gaze, contemplation, contemporary art, Jacques Lacan, Georges Didi-Huberman, Robert Pfaller

Résumé

The present article reflects on the possibilities of conceiving a non-human, objectual gaze in the context of the contemplation of art by offering a synthetic evaluation of three of its most prominent theorizations: Jacques Lacan’s (often misapplied) formula of the gaze as an embodiment of the objet a, imprisoned by a work of art; Georges Didi-Huberman’s approach that understands the gaze emitted by what he dubs a ‘critical image’ as en exhortation to the observer to examine their own viewpoint in a dialectical play with this image; and Robert Pfaller’s analysis of the interpassive mechanism in art, crystalized in the idea of a work of art contemplating itself without any involvement of the side of the beholder.

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2020-07-20

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Bomholt, M. (2020). Artworks that Look at You (and Themselves) Reflections on the Gaze in Lacan, Didi-Huberman, and Pfaller. Theory Now. Journal of Literature, Critique, and Thought, 3(2), 39–57. https://doi.org/10.30827/tnj.v3i2.13945

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Monográfico: "Pensar las imágenes. Con y en torno a Georges Didi-Huberman"