Aarnoud Rommens
Biographic Data
| ID | 1034593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aarnoud Rommens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aarnoud |
| FAMILY NAME | Rommens |
| SIGNATURE | ROMMENS A |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2464-6095 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Latin American Abstraction
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
To Draw or Not to Draw
To Draw or Not to Draw:Alberto Breccia and the Ethos of Reading Aarnoud Rommens (bio) Reading: The Ethos of 'Seeing Things' It is not often that reading—let alone the reading of comics—is identified as a "need," a function of basic physical "survival": In Argentina, we were forced, as a question of survival, to use metaphor. ... Readers often 'saw' hidden details in panels, which, let's be honest, the authors were not even conscious of—they had s…
Memory in Camouflage
This article explores how a minor medium such as comics-specifically,Alberto Breccia's version of Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson"-used its counter-censorial potential to activate memory in a context stifled by harsh repression. Through the development of several reading hypotheses, the author demonstrates how Breccia's drawings allow for a decoding that runs counter to the signification imposed by the Argentina junta of 1976-83. By recontextua…
Time, Narrative and the Fixed Image
Book Review| March 01 2003 Time, Narrative and the Fixed Image Aarnoud Rommens Aarnoud Rommens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2003) 24 (1): 145–146. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-24-1-145 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Aarnoud Rommens; Time, Narrative and the Fixed Image. Poetics Today 1 March 2003; 24 (1): 145–146. doi: https://doi.org…
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Time, Narrative and the Fixed Image
Book Review| March 01 2003 Time, Narrative and the Fixed Image Aarnoud Rommens Aarnoud Rommens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2003) 24 (1): 145–146. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-24-1-145 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Aarnoud Rommens; Time, Narrative and the Fixed Image. Poetics Today 1 March 2003; 24 (1): 145–146. doi: https://doi.org…
Memory in Camouflage
This article explores how a minor medium such as comics-specifically,Alberto Breccia's version of Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson"-used its counter-censorial potential to activate memory in a context stifled by harsh repression. Through the development of several reading hypotheses, the author demonstrates how Breccia's drawings allow for a decoding that runs counter to the signification imposed by the Argentina junta of 1976-83. By recontextua…
To Draw or Not to Draw
To Draw or Not to Draw:Alberto Breccia and the Ethos of Reading Aarnoud Rommens (bio) Reading: The Ethos of 'Seeing Things' It is not often that reading—let alone the reading of comics—is identified as a "need," a function of basic physical "survival": In Argentina, we were forced, as a question of survival, to use metaphor. ... Readers often 'saw' hidden details in panels, which, let's be honest, the authors were not even conscious of—they had s…
Latin American Abstraction
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
Art (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity (2 works) · Breccia (2 works) · Comics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Geology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)