Statues
Book (italiano):
<DIV>In this first English translation of one of his most important works,<i> Statues: The Second Book of Foundations</i>, Michel Serres presents a statue as more than a static entity. A statue for Serres is the basis for knowledge, society, the subject and object, the world and experience. Through his prescient analysis of statues, Serres demonstrates how sacrificial art founded and still persists in society, science and knowledge, and reflects on the centrality of death and the statufied dead body to the human condition.<br/><br/>Serres comments on Verne's Around the Moon, Rodin's The Gates of Hell, the Eiffel Tower, cemeteries, short stories by Maupassant, fables by La Fontaine, the clothing and paintings of Carpaccio, the Challenger disaster and Baal. Each section covers a different time period and statuary topic, ranging from four thousand years ago to 1986. Expository, lyrical, fictionalized and hallucinatory, <i>Statues</i> does not follow a linear time sequence but rather plays with time and place, history and story in order to provoke us into thinking in entirely new ways.<br/><br/>Through mythic and poetic meditations on various kinds of descent into the underworld and new insights into the relation of the subject and object and their foundation in death,<i> Statues</i> contains great treasures and provocations for philosophers, literary critics, art historians and sociologists.</div>
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