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Papers by Aarnoud Rommens

Poetics Today, Mar 1, 2003

Brian Richardson, ed., Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames. Columbus: O... more Brian Richardson, ed., Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, . xi +  pp. This anthology aims to bring together essays that represent the rich body of work on the most important aspects of narrative, ...

Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal

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Captures, 2019

This essay focuses on comics that show a sensitivity to “deep time” and the conception of our cur... more This essay focuses on comics that show a sensitivity to “deep time” and the conception of our current epoch as the so-called “Anthropocene”. Through comics by Diniz Conefrey, Alberto Breccia and the WREK collective, this text explores how the bodily temporality of reading and drawing stands in productive counterpoint to some of the themes of these comics. These thematic layers are informed by the interpretive horizon of geological time and pose a politics of form to negotiate this contradiction.

Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal, 2018

Abstract:This essay nuances the legibility of Joaquín Torres-García's Inverted Map of South A... more Abstract:This essay nuances the legibility of Joaquín Torres-García's Inverted Map of South America as the supposed symbol of Latin America's cultural independence. Rather than a transparent "illustration," I argue that the Inverted Map traces an ambiguous routing of mestizaje constantly disavowed in the artist's discourse while animating his visual praxis.

International Journal of Comic Art, 2015

This is not a book about abstract comics. Instead, it combines original, new comics and multiple ... more This is not a book about abstract comics. Instead, it combines original, new comics and multiple texts to explore what abstraction can offer to comics, and what comics can do for abstraction. By doing so, Comics and Abstraction occasions a critical engagement with issues such as ‘high’ versus ‘low’ art; art history and comics studies; literature, poetry, drawing and writing; highbrow, lowbrow, nobrow, and so on. Comics and Abstraction generates a space of contradiction where the essays and images stand in a relation of tension. Some of the included texts are more historically-oriented, some take a decidedly semiotic approach, while others are more concerned with formal features. This multiplicity is echoed by the markedly different aesthetics of the comics, which do not necessarily ‘illustrate’ the theoretical frames of the essays. It is ultimately up to the reader to create the meaningful paths that connect abstraction and comics.

Poetics Today, Apr 17, 2003

The volume Time, Narrative and the Fixed Image is a selection of essays (both in French and in En... more The volume Time, Narrative and the Fixed Image is a selection of essays (both in French and in English) from two international conferences that focused on the temporality of the image. The contributors question the" immobility" traditionally ascribed to the image. ...

Poetics Today, Mar 1, 2003

Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal

info:eu-repo/semantics/inPres

Captures, 2019

Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal, 2018

International Journal of Comic Art, 2015

Poetics Today, Apr 17, 2003

Abstraction and Comics / Bande dessinée et abstraction, 2019

Abstraction and Comics This is not a book about abstract comics. Instead, it combines original, n... more Abstraction and Comics
This is not a book about abstract comics. Instead, it combines original, new comics and multiple texts to explore what abstraction can offer to comics, and what comics can do for abstraction. By doing so, Comics and Abstraction occasions a critical engagement with issues such as ‘high’ versus ‘low’ art; art history and comics studies; literature, poetry, drawing and writing; highbrow, lowbrow, nobrow, and so on.

Comics and Abstraction generates a space of contradiction where the essays and images stand in a relation of tension. Some of the included texts are more historically-oriented, some take a decidedly semiotic approach, while others are more concerned with formal features. This multiplicity is echoed by the markedly different aesthetics of the comics, which do not necessarily ‘illustrate’ the theoretical frames of the essays. It is ultimately up to the reader to create the meaningful paths that connect abstraction and comics.

This volume includes contributions by Jean-Charles Andrieu de Lévis, Tomás Arguello, Jan Baetens, Roberto Bartual, Berliac, Jessie Bi, Paul Fisher Davies, Benoît Crucifix, Erwin Dejasse, Björn-Olav Dozo, Jacques Dürrenmatt, Lukas Etter, Lautaro Fiszman, Amadeo Gandolfo, Ezequiel García, Mariano Grassi, Tim Gaze, Simon Grennan, Martha Kuhlman, Erin La Cour, Pascal Leyder, Ilan Manouach, Pascal Matthey, Gert Meesters, Denis Mellier, Kai Mikkonen, Christian Montenegro, Pedro Moura, Barbara Postema, Aarnoud Rommens, Chris Reyns-Chikuma, Kym Tabulo, Renaud Thomas, Jean-Louis Tilleuil, Pablo Turnes, Un Faulduo, Francisco Vega, Martín Vitaliti, Lukas R.A. Wilde, and WREK.

888 pages
ISBN 978-2-39008-039-8

By his national affiliation and choice of genre, French novelist Gustave Flaubert can be consider... more By his national affiliation and choice of genre, French novelist Gustave Flaubert can be considered emblematic of modernity. This book showcases his specific and highly refined imaginary as at once unique and symptomatic of an era. In particular, it contributes to the controversial discussion of modernity's relation to religion. At a time when new religious fundamentalisms throughout the world are on the rise, this has only become a more pressing issue.

Through this single acclaimed author, we realize that modernity can only be understood in terms of its critical rewriting of religious dogma. Strikingly, already in Flaubert, this rewriting emerges in conjunction with questions of the Orient and Orientalism. Flaubert's Orient is an Other that is always already within Western society. By highlighting the complexity of the relation between religion, modernity, and the Oriental, Barbara Vinken's discussion of these issues goes beyond simple binaries. Her Flaubert Postsecular is a model of scholarly research with far-reaching political implications.

Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0804780643

Translated by Aarnoud Rommens with Susan L. Solomon.
480 pages.

About the Book Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud R... more About the Book

Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García. After studying and painting (for decades) in Europe, Torres-García returned in 1934 to his native home, Montevideo, with the dream of reawakening and revitalizing what he considered the true indigenous essence of Latin American art: "Abstract Spirit." Rommens rigorously analyses the paradoxes of the painter's aesthetic-philosophical doctrine of Constructive Universalism as it sought to adapt European geometric abstraction to the Americas. Whereas previous scholarship has dismissed Torres-García's theories as self-contradictory, Rommens seeks to recover their creative potential as well as their role in tracing the transatlantic routes of the avant-garde. Through the highly original method of reading Torres-García's artworks as a critique on the artist's own writings, Rommens reveals how Torres-García appropriates the colonial language of primitivism to construct the artificial image of "pure" pre-Columbian abstraction. Torres-García thereby inverts the history of art: this book teases out the important lessons of this gesture and the implications for our understanding of abstraction today.

Routledge
192 pages | 44 B/W Illus.
ISBN 9781472471437
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