In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photography

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-420-3829-5
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 393, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

Reihe: Faux Titre

Marcel Proust offered the twentieth century a new psychology of memory and seeing. His novel In Search of Lost Time was written in the modern age of photography and art history. In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photography is an intellectual adventure that brings to light Proust’s visual imagination, his visual metaphors, and his photographic resources and imaginings. The book features over 90 illustrations.

Mary Bergstein highlights various kinds of photography: daguerreotypes, stereoscopic cards, cartes-de-visite, postcards, book illustrations, and other photographic mediums. Portraiture, medical photography, spirit photography, architectural photography, Orientalism, ethnographic photography, and fin-de-siècle studies of Botticelli, Leonardo, and Vermeer, are considered in terms of Proust’s life and work. The net is cast wide, and each image under discussion has been researched with subtle attention to art, literature, and cultural history.
This scholarly study in literature and visual culture will be a delight, too, for general readers who love photography or Proust.

Mary Bergstein is professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design. She won the 2012 “Courage to Dream” book prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association for, Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art (Cornell 2010). She has published numerous books and articles on art and visual culture from Italian Renaissance sculpture to contemporary photography.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunst: Rezeption, Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Acknowledgements, and Notes on the Text
Introduction: “Pleasure… is like photography”
Chapter 1: Photography and Memory
Chapter 2: Photography and the Cultural Archive
Chapter 3: The Enigma of Character
Illustrations chapters 1-3
Chapter 4: Long Ago and Far Away: Jews, Orientals, and Ghosts
Chapter 5: Odette “En Abyme”
Chapter 6: Botticelli/Vermeer/Leonardo
Coda: “In Looking Back One Learns to See”
Illustrations chapters 4-6
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Bergstein won the “Courage to Dream” book prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association for Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art (Cornell 2010). She has published widely on topics from Italian Renaissance sculpture to contemporary photography. Mary Bergstein has been Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design since 1990.