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The visual world of French theory : figurations

By: Wilson, Sarah [1956-]Contributor(s): Yale University PressLanguage: English Publication details: New Haven, CT Yale University Press 2010 ISBN: 0300259093Subject(s): Figurative art--France--Paris--20th century | Narrative art (Art movement) | Philosophy, French--20th century | Art and philosophy--France | Art and philosophy | Figurative art | Philosophy, FrenchGeneral note: FigurationsOnline resources: [A&AePortal (Yale University Press)]
Contents:
Introduction: Witnesses of the future, painters of their times -- Interlude : the Datcha -- painting as manifesto -- From Sartre to Althusser : Lapoujade, Cremonini and the turn to antihumanism -- Pierre Bourdieu, Bernard Rancillac : 'the image of the image' -- Louis Althusser, Lucio Fanti : the USSR as phantom -- Gerard Fromanger : periodisations -- Deleuze, Foucault, Guattari. Felix Guattari : Night and day -- Lyotard/Monory : postmodern romantics -- Derrida/Adami : the truth in painting? -- Conclusion: In Beaubourg, 1977/2007.
Summary: 9780300259094Summary: Includes bibliographical references and index.Summary: This book focuses on a remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s-- Sartre, Deleuze, Bourdieu and Foucault among them-- and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement. Each encounter involved either a mutual engagement or the writing of critical texts or catalogue prefaces-- texts that illuminate not only the work of the artists but also the production of the philosopher-writer concerned.Summary: 2021
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Introduction: Witnesses of the future, painters of their times -- Interlude : the Datcha -- painting as manifesto -- From Sartre to Althusser : Lapoujade, Cremonini and the turn to antihumanism -- Pierre Bourdieu, Bernard Rancillac : 'the image of the image' -- Louis Althusser, Lucio Fanti : the USSR as phantom -- Gerard Fromanger : periodisations -- Deleuze, Foucault, Guattari. Felix Guattari : Night and day -- Lyotard/Monory : postmodern romantics -- Derrida/Adami : the truth in painting? -- Conclusion: In Beaubourg, 1977/2007.

9780300259094

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book focuses on a remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s-- Sartre, Deleuze, Bourdieu and Foucault among them-- and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement. Each encounter involved either a mutual engagement or the writing of critical texts or catalogue prefaces-- texts that illuminate not only the work of the artists but also the production of the philosopher-writer concerned.

2021

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