The visual world of French theory : figurations / Sarah Wilson.

Author/creator Wilson, Sarah, 1956-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2010.
Description271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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Portion of title Figurations
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 This work focuses on the series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index.
LCCN 2010016378
ISBN9780300162813 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0300162812 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks N6848.5.F53 W55 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold