Resumen de "An agony of perceivedness"?: gazes and disguises in the works of James Joyce and Cindy Sherman
James Joyce's texts and Cindy Sherman's photos have much in common.His work creates 'endlessly inartistic portraits of himself,' constantly interrogating the boundaries between personal and collective history; her work 'creates surrogates' progressively appropriating images from our collective past. If Joyce's texts developed into more voluminous and cumulativle narratives, with the publication of "Ulysses" and "Finegans Wake"; Shennan's photos became increasingly larger, culminating in her 1985 Iife-size prints.
This essay represents, therefore, an attempt to promote a dialogue betwteen literature and photography through a dialogue between two of their most influential agents: James Joyce and Cindy Sherman. I will focus mainly on Joyce's "Finlnegan Wake" and on a selection of Sherman's photos in order to discuss the construction (and the deconstruction) of masks in both works. I will also consider the perceptions of reader~ and viewers when confronted with these masks.
