出版社:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
摘要:elázquez, of 17th century Spanish
baroque, painted Las Meninas, a picture
that innovated painting and generated
several imitations. Such innovation comes
from its polyphonic language, which we
can direct revolutionarily to the inquiries
about the duties of painting, until then of
religious and salvific background. They are
duties that depend on what everyone
reads on canvas, but in advance we can
say that it is a painting of plural readings,
including Foucault’s text. It is a matter of
a sign that carries us away and of mirrors
generating new signs. Who is Velázquez
really painting? Simply himself, painting,
or anyone of us, introspective and
specularly? It’s a painting of reflexes and
sign polyphonies. The responsibility of
conception and donation of the sign is
untransferable: we have to read the artist
to understand his endless semiosis.