Seven writings assembled in the context of the philosophy of art
that Jean-Francois Lyotard developed in the 1980s, at the time of
the Differend (1983) and of the "Kantian turn" leading to the
Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime (1992), are here published
for the first time in English translation. The texts focus on three
artists with widely divergent aesthetic orientations: the
colorist-draftsman Valerio Adami, the conceptual metaphysician
Shusaku Arakawa, and Daniel Buren, the "pragmatist of the
invisible."
These three protagonists share the notion that the interest in
art does not lie in the simple denotation of a frame of reference,
but in the connotations of material nuances, in flavors, in tones
in one word, the visual, that is barely revealed in the anamnesis
that guides the visible and provokes the essential inquietude of
the aesthetic experience. What to Paint? Not reality or a world,
nor a rich subjectivity, nor even the phantasms of dreams or ideals
of being-together, but the act of painting itself, and, beyond the
performance of the painter, the presence of matters, a presence
that in Arakawa's word is quite obviously blank, elusive."
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