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Memoirs of the blind : the self-portrait and other ruins
Author
Uniform Title
Mémoires d'aveugle. English
Title
Memoirs of the blind : the self-portrait and other ruins / Jacques Derrida ; translated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas.
ISBN
0226143074
9780226143071
0226143082
9780226143088
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Physical Description
x, 141 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 5373: Number line: "02 01 00 99 98 97 96 95 94 5 4 3 2" on title page verso indicates 2nd printing, 1994. Paperbound. Sticker inside front cover: $24.95. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Notes
French ed. originally published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Louvre Museum, Paris, Oct. 26, 1990-Jan. 21, 1991.
Text in English ; translated from French.
Summary
An exploration of issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing, which offers detailed readings of a collection of images from the prints and drawings department of the Louvre. The works under consideration depict blindness--fictional, historical, and biblical.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Memoirs of the blind : the self-portrait and other ruins / Jacques Derrida ; translated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas.
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Translators' Preface
Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins
List of Illustrations
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Drawing Philosophy, Visual perception, Blind in art, Aesthetics.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
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Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Reading Library.
United States Illinois Chicago.
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