L'œil distrait
Figures et contextes de la dispersion du regard
First Edition
The contributions comprising this book are predicated on the premise that a distracted eye facilitates enhanced visual perception, despite the fact that such images evade our sustained or forced attention. Read More
Provided it is not perceived negatively, distraction has the capacity to reveal new forms of perception. In this book, we argue that, in the words of S. Kracauer and W. Benjamin, distraction enables us to see images more clearly, even if they are not deliberately focused on. Distraction functions not only as a theoretical mechanism for reexamining photographs, paintings, and films in close detail, but also as a visual operation capable of drawing attentional circuits or extracting oneself from them. The act of observing images with a distracted eye engages a method of analysis that can elaborate on what the gaze ignores, neglects, or glosses over, while articulating it to what is a matter of remarkable visual attraction. A comprehensive examination of both still and moving images reveals that distraction is a form of sensitive experience, prompted by the environment to be contemplated with a renewed perspective.
Specifications
- Publisher
- Presses Universitaires du Septentrion
- Edited by
- Nathalie Delbard, Emmanuelle André,
- With
- Emmanuelle André, Marine Allibert, Raymond Bellour, Érik Bullot, Valérie Boudier, Marie-Laure Cazin, Nathalie Delbard, Thomas Golsenne, Pierre-Damien Huyghe, Sarah Ohana, Jacopo Rasmi,
- Collection
- ISSN
- 28009533
- Language
- French
- Tags
- attention, distraction, eye, perception, visual arts
- BISAC Subject Heading
- ART015110 ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)
- Dewey (abridged)
- 700 Arts
- Onix Audience Codes
- 06 Professional and scholarly
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
- 3668 Histoire de l'art, Etudes
- Title First Published
- 31 October 2025
Paperback
- Publication Date
- 31 October 2025
- ISBN-13
- 978-2-7574-4502-0
- Extent
- Main content page count : 148
- Code
- 2366
- Dimensions
- 16 x 24 x 1 cm
- Weight
- 280 grams
- List Price
- 20.00 €
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3
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Contents
Emmanuelle André et Nathalie Delbard
Introduction. Au prisme de la distraction
Pierre-Damien Huyghe
Deux sortes de distraction
Raymond Bellour
Éloge de l'attention
Marie-Laure Cazin
Le miroir de Mademoiselle Paradis
Marine Allibert
L’attention multipliée : lecture de Blind Sculpturede Marie Lelouche
Jacopo Rasmi
Everybody Talks About The Weather, We Don’t
Valérie Boudier
Regarder Beuckelaer
Érik Bullot
Le fennec et le perroquet
Sarah Ohana
La distraction plurielle dans deux films de Raoul Ruiz
Thomas Golsenne
La perception ornementale.
Ce qui se passe aux marges de l’attention
Bibliographie
Liste des auteurs
Index