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Lyotard and the 'figural' in Performance, Art and Writing (Paperback)
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Lyotard and the 'figural' in Performance, Art and Writing (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
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This original study offers a timely reconsideration of the work of
French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard in relation to art,
performance and writing. How can we write about art, whilst
acknowledging the transformation that inevitably accompanies
translations of both media and temporality? That is the question
that persistently dogs Lyotard's own writings on art, and to which
this book responds through reference to artists from the
recently-formed canon of performance art history, including the
myths of seminal figures Marina Abramovic and Vito Acconci, and the
controlled documentation of Gina Pane's actions. Through the
unstable, untranslatable element that Lyotard calls the figural,
his thought is brought to bear on attempts to write a history of
performance art and to question the paradoxically prescriptive
demand for rules to govern 're-performance'. Kiff Bamford
contextualises Lyotard's writings and approach with reference to
both his contemporaries, including Deleuze and Kristeva, and the
contemporary art about which they wrote, whilst arguing for the
pertinence of Lyotard's provocations today.
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