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Visions was born out of interviews Alexandre Leupin had with
Francis X. Pavy, a significant painter of Southern culture with a
career spanning five decades. This three-part book begins with a
general introduction situating Pavy in the history of painting, and
underscoring his radical authenticity and originality, as well as a
universality paradoxically stemming from his deep regional
connection. The second part reproduces Leupin and Pavy's interviews
over the years, where Pavy's artistic beginnings, his technique,
his vision, and the origins of his creations are discussed. In the
third section, entitled Pavicons, Pavy presents the sources of his
artistic inspiration and the recurrent themes that run through his
body of work through a large sample of his iconographic elements.
Focusing on the Incarnation -- the only dogma original to
Christianity, in which God becomes man and history -- this book
offers a wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated investigation
of the relationship between Christian discourse and literature from
Roman antiquity to the fourteenth century through a look at texts
by Cicero, Quintilian, Martianus Capella, Tertullian, Saint
Augustine, Alain of Lille, Guillaume de Machaut, and others.
Alexandre Leupin asks if it is possible to go beyond the
dialectics of the Incarnated God and the Devil without harking back
to the beautiful but partially obsolete truths of paganism and
sophistry. Employing a method inspired by psychoanalysis, Leupin
repudiates the sophistry and relativism of postmodern theory while
calling into question old commonplaces that have been invalidated
by modernity. He does so by attending to the larger and deeper
structures hidden within the discourses of theology, rhetoric,
literature, and psychoanalysis. The result is an innovative
perspective on the Middle Ages, an original and promising view of
the problems of Western literature in relation to theology and
rhetoric.
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