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

By: Publication details: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2010.Description: 271 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780300162813 (hbk.) :
  • 0300162812 (hbk.) :
Other title:
  • Figurations
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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index.

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.

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.