Jean-Francois Lyotard

This book is the third of a series of five volumes that exhaustively brings together the writings of Jean-Franois Lyotard (19241998) on contemporary art and artists. This collection of essays, written between 1974 and 1977 in the midst of Duchamps rediscovery in France, was published by Editions Gal...

Jean-Francois Lyotard is recognized as one of the most significant French philosophers of the twentieth century. Although nearly all of his major writing has been translated into English, one important work has until now been unavailable. "Discourse, Figure" is Lyotard's thesis. Provoked in part by ...