Awards
- Winner of Winner, 2011 Flemish Association for Publishers Aw.
Overview
The second volume in the series Jean-Francois Lyotard-Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists introduces forty-two poetical reflections and comments on the work of the well-known Californian painter Sam Francis (1923-1994). This new edition reprints the English text, which is no longer available, with the previously unpublished French original on facing pages. In Lyotard's opinion Sam Francis's work ""pays homage to the visible marvel and bears witness to the visual enigma."" Color evokes conflicting feelings in the artist: ""...color says to me: 'Come, I am your consolation, I cure your melancholy, love me,' and it says to me: 'Go, I am your deception, traverse me, lose yourself and enough of absent truth.'"" Lyotard is the first to see through the subtle variety of meanings in Sam Francis's use of color. This edition also reproduces in full color all forty-two paintings discussed by Lyotard.
Full Product Details
Author: Jean-François Lyotard ,
Geoffrey Bennington ,
Herman Parret ,
Geoffrey Bennington
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Imprint: Leuven University Press
Volume: v. 2
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.907kg
ISBN: 9789058677815
ISBN 10: 9058677818
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 04 August 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Language: French & English
Reviews
Stride Magazine November 2010 De rijkdom van Lyotards beschouwingen, het samengaan van tekst en reproductie, de nummering van de afgebeelde werken waardoor er ook in het uitgebreide voorwoord precies naar kan verwezen worden en de rustige vormgeving maken dit boek in alle opzichten 'af', klaar om gelezen, herlezen en overdacht te worden. Erik De Smedt, H-ART 12.11 2010 First published in British magazine Blank Page in 1993, the poem is republished, alongside the previously unseen French original, in an elegantly designed volume that offers both a singular response to an artist's work and a contribution ta a critical rethinking of painters - such as Francis's friend and fellow American in Paris Joan Mitchell - who were working in the immediate fallout of Abstract Expressionism, outside of New York. Laura McLean-Ferris, ArtReview 2010
Author Information
The philosopher and literary theorist Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998) was Woodruff Professor of Philosophy and French at Emory University. Herman Parret is Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Language at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven.
