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;ffiru,t:The Trace in the orisin of Drawins

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Session 2:The lndex, Stain, and SignReading:Rosalind Krauss, "Notes on the lndex" in The Originality of the Avant-Garde and

otherModernistMyths (cambridge, Mass. and London, Engrand: Mrr,1985), pp.196-219.

Georges Didi-Huberman, "The lndex of the Absent wound (Monograph on a

Stain)," October, Summer 1984, pp.63-81,.

James Elkins, on Pictures and the words That Failrhem (cambridge UK:Cambridge University Press, 1998), Chapter 1: "Marks, Traces, Traits,Contours, Orli, and Splendores", pp. 3-46.

Session 3: The Relic, Life Cast, Death Mask and PhotographReading: -,u

sigmund Freud, "Mourning and Melancholia," standard Edition, vor. 14, pp.243-258.

Andre Bazin, "The ontology of the Photographic lmage", in whatis cinema?(Berkeley: University of California Press, 196Z), pp.g-16

Roland Barthes, camera Lgcida : Reflections on Photography (New york: Hilland Wang, 1981).tfli

Session 4: The Trace of the OtherReading:Emmanuel Levinas, "The Trace of the Other," in Deconstruction in Context, ed.

Mark Taylor (Chicago: University of Chicago press, 1986), pp.345-359.Edward casey, "Levinas on Memory and the Trace", in J.c.sallis, G. Moneta and

J. Taminiaux eds., The collegium Phaenomenologicum (Dordrecht:Kluwer, 1 988), pp.240-255.

Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins, trans.Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas (chicago: The University ofChicago Press, 1993). gUV

Julia Kristeva, "The Semiotic Ciitora Ordering the Drives ," in Revolution in PoeticLanguage, trans. Margaret Waller (New York, Cotumbia University Press,1984), esp. pp.25-6.

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