Contemporary French art [electronic resource]. 2 : Gérard Garouste, Colette Deblé, Georges Rousse, Geneviève Asse, Martial Raysse, Christian Jaccard, Joël Kermarrec, Danièle Perronne, Daniel Dezeuze, Philippe Favier, Daniel Nadaud / Michael Bishop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bishop, Michael, 1938-

Series:

Faux titre ; no. 362.

Faux titre : etudes de langue et littérature françaises ; 362

Contemporary French art ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, French--20th century.

Art, French.

Art, French--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gérard Garouste, Colette Deblé, Georges Rousse, Geneviève Asse, Martial Raysse, Christian Jaccard, Joël Kermarrec, Danièle Perronne, Daniel Dezeuze, Philippe Favier, Daniel Nadaud: after the eleven essays of Contemporary French Art 1 , devoted to major artists from Ben Vautier and Niki de Saint Phalle to Annette Messager and Gérard Titus-Carmel, the present volume pursues its interrogations of the what , the how and the why of contemporary plastic production of some of France’s finest practitioners. If, as ever, such production can reveal elements of an interweaving of individualized preoccupations and modes, endless specificities demarcate and affirm originalities that pure theory and its leveling anonymity may obscure. Thus is it that Gérard Garouste is alone in that obsession with ‘indianness’ and ‘classicalness’; that Colette Deblé’s gesture is drawn implacably to the unseenness of female representation; that Georges Rousse plunges photography into the realm of matter’s poetic sacredness; that Geneviève Asse traverses a pure seemingness of abstraction to attain to an intimacy of silence; that Martial Raysse’s ‘hygiene of vision’ may endlessly renew and hybridize itself. Christian Jaccard, too, will explore with uniqueness an art of materiality at the frontier of metaphysics; Joël Kermarrec will offer us the inimitable exquisite traces of surging desire and deception; Danièle Perronne’s boxes and stringings, her paintings and her sheetings will unfold a psychic infinity at the heart of form. And, if Daniel Dezeuze seeks namelessness and pure structuration, the latter yet surge forth via works that relentlessly identify a gesture so distant, we may feel, from the at once sobering and ceremonial microproliferations of a Philippe Favier or the tense but genial articulations of Daniel Nadaud’s sculptural imagination.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

PREFACE

UNREPRESENTING MEANING: GÉRARD GAROUSTE

WINDOWS UPON THE UNSEEN: COLETTE DEBLÉ

THE LIGHT OF DEATH, A SACREDNESS OF DOING: GEORGES ROUSSE

THE INTIMACY OF SILENCE: GENEVIÈVE ASSE

HYGIENE, THOUGHT, QUEST, CONSENT: MARTIAL RAYSSE

THE ENDLESS IMPRINTING OF BEING: CHRISTIAN JACCARD

DESIRE AND DECEPTION, THE METONYMIES OF ARTIFICE: JOËL KERMARREC

THE PLASTIC LIFE OF THE PSYCHE: DANIÈLE PERRONNE

STRUCTURE AND AERATION, FREEDOM AND THE UNNAMEABLE: DANIEL DEZEUZE

PROLIFERATION, MUTATION, PHANTASM, THE CEREMONY OF THE REAL: PHILIPPE FAVIER

THE ART OF WAR AND PEACE: DANIEL NADAUD

CONCLUSION

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-16228-8

9786613162281

94-012-0045-9

OCLC:

729167162

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401200455 DOI