The Assassination of Experience by Painting, Monory

By:

Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Hardback

Series:

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

September 18th, 2013

Author

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Contributors

Afterword by Sarah Wilson
Edited by Herman Parret

Illustrations

32 Plates, color

Pages

288

Series

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists

Dimensions

160x231x20

ISBN-13

9789058678812

Product ID

21211248

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