Poetry in Painting

Writings on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics

AvHélène Cixous,Marta Segarra

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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The first book by Hélène Cixous on painting and the contemporary arts.This collection gathers most of Hélène Cixous' short texts devoted to contemporary artists, such as the painter Nancy Spero, the photographer Andres Serrano, the visual artists Roni Horn and Ernest Pignon-Ernest, the fashion designer Sonia Rykiel and the choreographer Karine Saporta, among others. The artworks belong to different genres and media: photography, painting, installations, film, choreography and fashion design. Nevertheless, Hélène Cixous' texts all deal with some of her privileged themes: exile, war, violence (against women) and exclusion, as well as love, memory, beauty and tenderness.Neither art criticism nor critical essays, Hélène Cixous responds to these artworks as a poet, reading them as if they were poems. Written between 1985 and 2010, most of these essays are unpublished in English, or published only in rare catalogues or art books. Key Features*Combines poetic, theoretical and critical writing and Cixous' unique methodology*Addresses an important collection of contemporary artists, including Americans Nancy Spero and Roni Horn, the London artist Maria Chevska, the Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson, the filmmaker Ruth Bekermann, the French choreographer Karine Saporta and the French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel.*Treats a range of media and genre: photography, painting, installations, film, choreography, fashion design

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-04-04
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:384 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Frontiers of Theory
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748647446

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Hélène Cixous is Director of the Centre d'Études Féminines at Université Paris VIII, Emerita. one of the foremost intellectuals and creative writers in France and a major figure in the emergence and global spread of postmodern literary theory, late-20th-century Continental Thought and Women's Studies. She is the author of more than 40 novels, 14 plays and 15 volumes of theory and essays. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages, including Japanese, Korean, Hindi and Urdu. Marta Segarra is Professor of French literature and Gender Studies, and director of the Centre Women and Literature at the University of Barcelona (Spain). She specializes in French and Francophone contemporary literature, deconstruction and feminist theory, and postcolonial studies. Her most recent books are: Demenageries. Thinking (of) Animals after Derrida (co-ed. A.E. Berger, 2011), Nouvelles romancières francophones du Maghreb (2010), The Portable Cixous (ed., 2010), Traces du désir (2008). Joana Masó is Assistant Professor at the University of Barcelona and Associate Scholar at the Centre Women and Literature. She has translated into Spanish texts by Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Luc Nancy. She has edited the following books on or by Hélène Cixous: Cixous sous X (with M.-D. Garnier, 2010), Peinetures. Écrits sur l'art (with M. Segarra, Paris, 2010) and its Spanish translation, Poetas en pintura. Escritos sobre arte de Rembrandt a Nancy Spero (2010) and La llengua m'és l'únic refugi (ed., 2009).

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An important collection of essays on art by one of France's leading writers and literary figures.

Innehållsförteckning

"Hélène Cixous, in Art as in Dreams", Joana Masó and Marta Segarra;1. "Paintings";2. "Spero's Dissidances";3. "Ernest's Imagic";4. "See the Neverbeforeseen";5. "Portraits of Portraits. The Very Day/Light of Roni Horn";6. "K-A Notebook";7. "Shit, No Present: Faecetious Serrrano";8. "Inheriting/Inventing with Jeffrey Gibson";9. "Filming the Invisible Becoming";10. "Sonia Rykiel in Translation";11. "The Train Stop, or Anna's Resurrections".