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Multiple Points of View Examples: • Holbein's 'The Ambassadors' • Stan Douglas - 'The Sandman' (The moving subject) • Campus/ Three Transitions • Zbig Rybzinski • Guy Vardi's project Orpheus' Gaze and Lacan's Map • • • • The Gaze of Orpheus (Maurice Blanchot) The split in the Orpheic world is predetermined: there is light and there is darkness; life (above) and death (below). 'The power that causes the night to open', the force that enables Orpheus to cross the boundaries of light and life, and to descend to Eurydice, according to Blanchot, is that of art. And yet, he continues, Orpheus has gone down to Eurydice: for him Eurydice is the limit of what art can attain; concealed behind a name and covered by a veil, she is the profoundly dark point towards which art, desire, death, and the night all seem to lead. She is the instant in which the essence of the night approaches as the Other night.

(p.99) Rendering this dark point, the lure, the point in which the artist's control is undermined, is also the object of the work of art: Orpheus' work does not consist of securing the approach of this 'point' by descending into the depth. Canon Capture Perfect 2 on this page. His work is to bring it back into the daylight and in the daylight give it form, figure and reality.

Orpheus can do anything except look this 'point' in the face, look at the center of the night in the night. (p.99) The superimposed triangles depicted by Lacan in his article on the gaze figure the path undertaken by Orpheus, as well as the evasion, at each end, of the object of (artistic) desire: (figure 1) Rather than obtained, the object of desire is always displaced. Drawn from darkness to light, its absence or invisibility is re-articulated as a gap, a notion of loss, a signifier, within the frame of language, within a poem of lament. Bruno Martino Estate Pdf Printer.

This article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject. Please help with a. (October 2009) () The Gaze of Orpheus is derived from the antiquarian Greek myth of and. Following his descent into the Underworld Orpheus disobeys Hades’ and Persephone’s condition for release of his wife Eurydice.

'To you this tale refers, Who seek to lead your mind Into the upper day; For he who overcome should turn back his gaze Towards the Tartarean cave, Whatever excellence he takes with him He loses when he looks on those below.' [ “Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy 3.52] (Cited in “Greek Mythology Link: Orpheus”) The Gaze of Orpheus has since been evaluated by many a philosopher and literary critic.

Common analogies are made between Orpheus’s gaze and writing processes, philosophical interpretation, and artistic origins. Some of the most famous uses of the gaze of Orpheus can be found in ’s work The Gaze of Orpheus, Geoffrey Sirc’s, The Composition’s Eye/Orpheus’s Gaze/Cobain’s Journals, and ’s work on the. Contents • • • • • • Interpretations [ ] Maurice Blanchot [ ] Blanchot's interpretation or use of the Gaze of Orpheus is in artistic creation. Some have offered, “the Orpheus myth as a model which provides ways to discuss many of the features of Blanchot's work, which until now appeared not to have common thematic links” (Champagne 1254). The path taken by Orpheus from light to dark and back to light is symbolic of the artist’s journey from reality to the edges of the surreal, “the force that enables Orpheus to cross the boundaries of light and life, and to descend to Eurydice, according to Blanchot, is that of art.

Elaborare Il 2 Tempi Facchinelli Pdf Printer here. Rendering this dark point, the lure, the point in which the artist's control is undermined, is also the object of the work of art.” (New Media Narratives). Blanchot uses the myth to transcribe the creative process. “Eurydice's disappearance symbolizes a loss that is recuperated by the compensatory gift of Orpheus's song” (Huffer 175). Geoffrey Sirc [ ] Another interpretation or usage of the gaze of Orpheus is by Geoffrey Sirc. Sirc uses Orpheus’s moment of violation as argument for creative form in writing versus the standard polished text. Urging the adolescent writer to break free of formal notions of form, Sirc views the journal as the media through which Orpheus yearns for Eurydice.

“If the Work is freed of concern, the gaze is transgressive, then we’re clearly not talking about the polished text, especially one oriented dutifully around the tiny truths available through an analysis of middle-brow media” (Sirc 14). Sirc’s primary reference to this is in Kurt Cobain’s Journal’s. Jaques Lacan [ ] Lacan’s perspective on the gaze of Orpheus is more a matter of desires and yearning. On one hand we have Orpheus gazing towards the underworld, which serves to dissolve the connection between Orpheus and his desire, Eurydice.