{"product_id":"the-triad-of-the-gaze-an-operative-theory-of-looking-the-subtle-mirror-book-ii-9791098278518","title":"The Triad of the Gaze: An Operative Theory of Looking: The Subtle Mirror - Book II","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alain Jacques Bougearel\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Ouroboros Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Ouroboros Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Aesthetics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Triad of the Gaze\u003c\/b\u003e is the second volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Subtle Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e, following \u003ci\u003eThe Horizon of the Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere the first volume approached the image through presence, distance, and contemporary visual culture, this book turns toward the structure of looking itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt brings together two movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst, \u003cb\u003eThe Perched Gaze\u003c\/b\u003e: a fragmentary and poetic meditation on the origin of a gaze that does not seize, consume, or possess. A gaze held at a distance. A gaze that waits. A gaze that learns to see without reducing what appears before it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecond, \u003cb\u003eThe Triad of the Gaze\u003c\/b\u003e: an operative theory of looking built around three structural functions: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Other-Image\u003c\/i\u003e - what addresses us before we fully see;\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Second Presence\u003c\/i\u003e - what maintains the interval and prevents relation from collapsing;\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Inverted Double\u003c\/i\u003e - what returns, reverses, and transforms meaning without closing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis triad is not a typology, nor a symbolic system in the usual sense. It is a dynamic structure: a way of understanding how images look back, how presence is sustained, and how meaning is displaced through the act of seeing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on literature, visual semiotics, psychoanalytic thought, and the philosophy of the image, \u003cb\u003eThe Triad of the Gaze\u003c\/b\u003e proposes a rigorous but deeply personal approach to the visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a book for readers interested in aesthetics, image theory, symbolic structures, and the fragile interval where seeing becomes relation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot an interpretation of images as objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exploration of the gaze as an event.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ouroboros Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891311853719,"sku":"9791098278518","price":1851.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9791098278518.webp?v=1781183170","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-triad-of-the-gaze-an-operative-theory-of-looking-the-subtle-mirror-book-ii-9791098278518","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}