Multiple Points of View Examples: • Holbein's 'The Ambassadors' • Stan Douglas - 'The Sandman' (The moving subject) • Campus/ Three Transitions • Zbig Rybzinski • Guy Vardi's project Orpheus' Gaze and Lacan's Map • • • • The Gaze of Orpheus (Maurice Blanchot) The split in the Orpheic world is predetermined: there is light and there is darkness; life (above) and death (below). 'The power that causes the night to open', the force that enables Orpheus to cross the boundaries of light and life, and to descend to Eurydice, according to Blanchot, is that of art. And yet, he continues, Orpheus has gone down to Eurydice: for him Eurydice is the limit of what art can attain; concealed behind a name and covered by a veil, she is the profoundly dark point towards which art, desire, death, and the night all seem to lead. She is the instant in which the essence of the night approaches as the Other night. (p.99) Rendering this dark point, the lure, the point in which the artist's control is undermined, is also the object of the work of art: Orpheus' work does not consist of securing the approach of this 'point' by descending into the depth.

Blanchot's interpretation or use of the Gaze of Orpheus is in artistic creation. Torrent Flashpoint Season 2. Some have offered, “the Orpheus myth as a model which provides ways to discuss many of the features of Blanchot's work, which until now appeared not to have common thematic links” (Champagne 1254). Canon Vixia Hf20 Pixela Software.

His work is to bring it back into the daylight and in the daylight give it form, figure and reality. Orpheus can do anything except look this 'point' in the face, look at the center of the night in the night. Manual Hp 42c Rpn Scientific here. (p.99) The superimposed triangles depicted by Lacan in his article on the gaze figure the path undertaken by Orpheus, as well as the evasion, at each end, of the object of (artistic) desire: (figure 1) Rather than obtained, the object of desire is always displaced. Drawn from darkness to light, its absence or invisibility is re-articulated as a gap, a notion of loss, a signifier, within the frame of language, within a poem of lament.