Ulysse

1998 · Best.-Nr. 83036 — The MIT Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 140 pages 26 illus. 8 in color 8vo. -- with a bonus offer--; October Books; Many critics have explored the homoerotic message in the early portraits of the baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio 1573-1610. In Caravaggio's Secrets Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit emphasize instead the impenetrability of these portraits. The tension between erotic invitation and self-concealing retreat leads Bersani and Dutoit to conclude that the interest of these works is in their representation of an enigmatic address that solicits intimacy in order to block it with a secret. Bersani and Dutoit offer a psychoanalytic reading of the enigmatic address as initiating relations grounded in paranoid fascination. They study Caravaggio's attempts to move beyond such relations his experiments with a space no longer circumscribed by the mutual and paranoid if erotically stimulating fascination with imaginary secrets. In his most original work Caravaggio proposes a radically new mode of connectedness a nonerotic sensuality relevant to the most exciting attempts in our own time to rethink perhaps even to reinvent community. . 1998. 0262024497 . The MIT Press hardcover