Poetry in painting : writings in contemporary arts and aesthetics / Helene Cixous ; edited by Marta Segarra and Joana Maso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cixous, Hélène, 1937-

Contributor:

Segarra, Marta.

Masó, Joana.

Series:

Frontiers of theory.

Frontiers of theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 (a

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Sources; Illustrations; Series Editor's Preface; PLATES; Hélène Cixous, in Art as in Dreams; Chapter 1 Paintings; Chapter 2 Spero's Dissidances; Chapter 3 Ernest's Imagic; Chapter 4 See the Neverbeforeseen; Chapter 5 Portraits of Portraits The Very Day/Light of Roni Horn; Chapter 6 K - A Notebook; Chapter 7 Shit, No Present:Faecetious Serrano; Chapter 8 Inheriting/Inventing with Jeffrey Gibson; Chapter 9 Filming the Becoming Invisible; Chapter 10 Sonia Rykiel in Translation; Chapter 11 The Train Stop, or Anna's Resurrections; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780748647453

0748647457

OCLC:

795695191