 | Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics.; RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts.; ART / History / Renaissance.; Visual perception in art.; This interdisciplinary study explores George de La Tour's (1593-1652) enigmatic representations of light, vision and the visible in order to question the nature of painting and its religious, artistic and conceptual aspects. Challenging the familiarity of vision, it proposes a spiritual understanding of painting and its engagements with the world. Judovitz Dalia : Dalia Judovitz is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of French at Emory University. Her books include Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes , The Culture of the Body , and more recently, works on Duchamp and modernist aesthetics.Dalia Judovitz is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of French at Emory University. Her books include Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes , The Culture of the Body , and more recently, works on Duchamp and modernist aesthetics. |
