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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.

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Author:   Jean-François Lyotard ,  Herman Parret ,  Sarah Wilson
Publisher:   Leuven University Press
Imprint:   Leuven University Press
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9789058678812

ISBN 10:   9058678814
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   18 September 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   French

Table of Contents

Herman Parret: Préface / Preface Jean-François Lyotard: L’assassinat de l’expérience par la peinture, Monory The Assassination of Experience by Painting, Monory L’expertise Expertise Économie libidinale du dandy Libidinal Economy of the Dandy L’invasion / The invasion Le bleu / Blue Le catalogue / The catalogue Le dispositif / The set-up Le dandysme / Dandyism Deux morts / Two dead La libido du travail et capital / The libido of work and capital La libido de peindre / The libido of painting Économie de la peinture dandy / Economy of dandy painting Esthétique sublime du tueur à gages Sublime Aesthetic of the Contract Killer Le mélancolique / The melancholic Le tueur à gages / The contract killer L’appointé / The appointed one L’apathique / The apathetic L’instantané / The instantaneous Le réaliste / The realist Le positif / The positive Le sublime immanent, ou l’expérimental / The immanent sublime, or the experimental Sarah Wilson: Postface / Epilogue Illustrations

Reviews

Grâce à l'excellent appareil critique de cette nouvelle édition, qui ajoute une préface à une édition bilingue parue à Londres en 1998, elle-même reprenant l'édition des deux textes précédés d'une préface rédigée en 1981 par Jean-François Lyotard lui-même, le lecteur peut aisément s'imprégner de la pensée du philosophe et méditer sur ses conclusions, toujours pertinentes. Vanessa Morisset, « Jean-François Lyotard, L'Assassinat de l'expérience par la peinture : Monory », Critique d'art [En ligne], URL : http://critiquedart.revues.org/13441

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

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