Rotten Sun

• Autores: C.F.B. Miller
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 34, Nº. 2, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Creative Writing and Art History Edited by Catherine Grant and Patricia Rubin), págs. 389-411
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Since its dawn in the writings of Apollinaire, the mythology surrounding Picasso has been a solar system, consistent with Romantic codes of creative genius. Glaring from this literature is Georges Bataille's 1930 text, 'Rotten Sun', which places the artist on the side of the blinding sun. This essay is an interaction between Documents magazine, the early work of Jacques Derrida, and Anglophone post structuralism, deconstructing the writing of Plato, and staging the limit of idealism. It takes academic discourse and mixes it with 'mythological phantasms', enacting affects that undo the protocols of scholarly writing. The text indicates an early, psychoanalytic phase in Bataille's method of meditation on images. Narrator, reader, artist and viewer thus participate in a general economy of impossible specular identification with the blinding sun. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.