The Visual World Of French Theory Narrative Figuration

Sarah Wilson

ISBN 10: 0300162812 / ISBN 13: 9780300162813

Edité par Yale University Press, 2010

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CONDITION NOTES: SYNOPSIS: This revelatory book focuses on a remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970sâ Sartre, Deleuze, Bourdieu, and Foucault among themâ 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 prefacesâ texts that illuminate not only the work of the artists but also the production of the philosopher-writer concerned. Although the protagonists of â French theoryâ are universally known and studied, their thought is presented without a sense of contiguity, chronology, or context in translation, while the artists with whom they engaged are virtually unknown outside the French-speaking world. This account restores the lived context of artistic production. What Bourdieu called â cultural competenceâ is seen to be essential for these particular philosophers, and Sarah Wilson shows that it is through them that the figurative art of 1970s France can be introduced to the audience it deserves.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Visual World Of French Theory Narrative Figuration
• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0300162812
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780300162813
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book focuses on the remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s - Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Felix Guattari, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida - and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement - Bernard Rancillac, Lucio Fanti, Gerard Fromanger, Jacques Monory, Valerio Adami. Each of these encounters involved either a mutual engagement or the writing of critical texts or catalogue prefaces, and the texts that lie at the heart of each chapter illuminate not only the work of the artists but also the production of the philosopher - writer concerned. While the protagonists of 'French theory' are universally known and studied across all humanities disciplines, their thought is presented without a sense of contiguity, chronology or context in translation, while the artists with whom they engaged are relatively unknown outside the French-speaking world. This account restores the lived context of artistic production, where political engagement on the Left was a driving factor. What Bourdieu called 'cultural competence' is seen to be essential for these particular philosophers in the wake of Jean-Paul Sartre's writings on art from the 1940s to the 1970s. In this revelatory book, Sarah Wilson shows that it is via the philosophers - whose names are as familiar to an international public as the names of impressionist or cubist painters - that the figurative art of 1970s France can be introduced to the audience it deserves.

À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Wilson is Professor of Modern Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London