Sam Francis, lesson of darkness

Sam Francis, lesson of darkness PDF Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9058677818
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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“Sam Francis. Lesson of Darkness is the second of a series of six volumes, bringing together the most important writings of Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) on contemporary art and artists. This second volume introduces forty-three poetical reflections and comments on the work of the well-known Californian painter Sam Francis (1923-1994). This edition reprints the English text published in 1993, which is no longer available, face to face with the previously unpublished French original. It also reproduces in full colour all forty-three paintings commented upon by Lyotard. In Lyotard's opinion ‘the work [by Sam Francis] pays homage to the visible marvel and bears witness to the visual enigma'. Lyotard discovers in these poetic reflections the subtle variety of meanings in the use of colour in Sam Francis's paintings.”--Back cover.

Sam Francis, lesson of darkness

Sam Francis, lesson of darkness PDF Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9058677818
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Book Description
“Sam Francis. Lesson of Darkness is the second of a series of six volumes, bringing together the most important writings of Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) on contemporary art and artists. This second volume introduces forty-three poetical reflections and comments on the work of the well-known Californian painter Sam Francis (1923-1994). This edition reprints the English text published in 1993, which is no longer available, face to face with the previously unpublished French original. It also reproduces in full colour all forty-three paintings commented upon by Lyotard. In Lyotard's opinion ‘the work [by Sam Francis] pays homage to the visible marvel and bears witness to the visual enigma'. Lyotard discovers in these poetic reflections the subtle variety of meanings in the use of colour in Sam Francis's paintings.”--Back cover.

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Traversals of Affect

Traversals of Affect PDF Author: Julie Gaillard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474257909
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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This volume traces the topic of affect across Lyotard's corpus and accounts for Lyotard's crucial and original contribution to the thinking of affect. Highlighting the importance of affect in Lyotard's philosophy, this work offers a unique contribution to both affect theory and the reception of Lyotard. Affect indeed traverses Lyotard's philosophical corpus in various ways and under various names: “figure” or “the figural” in Discourse, Figure, “unbound intensities” in his “libidinal” writings, “the feeling of the différend” in The Differend, “affect” and “infantia” in his later writings. Across the span of his work, Lyotard insisted on the intractability of affect, on what he would later call the “differend” between affect and articulation. The singular awakening of sensibility, affect both traverses and escapes articulation, discourse, and representation. Lyotard devoted much of his attention to the analysis of this traversal of affect in and through articulation, its transpositions, translations, and transfers. This volume explores Lyotard's account of affect as it traverses the different fields encompassed by his writings (philosophy, the visual arts, the performing arts, literature, music, politics, psychoanalysis as well as technology and post-human studies).

Readings in Infancy

Readings in Infancy PDF Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350167363
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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'Nobody knows how to write'. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998). First published in French in 1991 as Lectures d'enfance, these essays have never been printed as a collection in English. In them, Lyotard investigates his idea of infantia, or the infancy of thought that resists all forms of development, either human or technological. Each essay responds to works by writers and thinkers who are central to cultural modernism, such as James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Sigmund Freud. This volume – with a new introduction and afterword by Robert Harvey and Kiff Bamford – contextualises Lyotard's thought and demonstrates his continued relevance today.

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art PDF Author: Joan M. Marter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195335791
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 3140

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Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.

Sam Francis

Sam Francis PDF Author: William C. Agee
Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Karel Appel, a gesture of colour

Karel Appel, a gesture of colour PDF Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9058677567
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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"Karel Appel. A gesture of colour is the first of a series of five volumes, bringing together the most important writings of Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) on contemporary art and artists. The book he devoted to the art of Karel Appel (1921-2006) is without doubt one of the most complete and inspired texts of all the writing included in the series. Neither the original French manuscript nor the English translation has ever been published before, and their presentation face to face should constitute a considerable plus. In this book, Lyotard presents Karel Appel's "matterism" as an offer of presence, presence deferred -- it is the visual where every predicate is suspended, the visual touched, "gesture" of colour more than property of colour, appearance at the edge of the abyss. Christine Buci-Glucksmann's epilogue situates Karel Appel. A gesture of colour within the whole of Lyotard's writings on art and his subsequent work."--P. [4] of cover.

Miscellaneous Texts

Miscellaneous Texts PDF Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9058678865
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 721

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Volume II of Lyotard's Miscellaneous Texts, "Contemporary Artists," gathers thirty-nine essays by Lyotard that deal with twenty-seven influential and innovative contemporary artists.

Duchamp's TRANS/formers

Duchamp's TRANS/formers PDF Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: Universitaire Pers Leuven
ISBN: 9058677907
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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This collection of essays, written between 1974 and 1977 in the midst of Duchamp's rediscovery in France, was published by Editions Galilée, Paris, in 1977 and in English translation by the Lapis Press, Los Angeles, in 1990.

Assassination of experience by painting, Monory

Assassination of experience by painting, Monory PDF Author: Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de Louvain - UCL
ISBN: 9058678814
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Lyotard met Jacques Monory in 1972, and the text on him published at that time was the first that Lyotard dedicated to contemporary art since Discourse, Figure. Lyotard's interest in the plastic arts thus fits fully within the setting of his political preoccupations. The artist-protagonist stages the recurring motifs that fascinate Lyotard: the scene of the crime, the revolver, the woman, the victim, glaciers, deserts, stars. The atmosphere of the essays on Monory is "Californian." Monory's imaginary repertoire goes well beyond the masters of modernity and is in line rather with a "modern contemporary surrealism." Both Lyotard and Monory live the "dilemma of Americanization," the America represented by cinema, fashion, novels, music. It is in this atmosphere that Lyotard and Monory will finally evoke their supreme experience of difference: desire and fear, exultation and a profound malaise. The plastic universe of Monory and the aesthetic meditations of Lyotard are in perfect symbiosis. Sarah Wilson's epilogue thoroughly outlines both the history of a friendship and, at the same time, the intellectual and artistic climate of the 1970s.