When French theory went global in the late twentieth century its
visual wing was understandably built on the work of its best-known
thinkers, notably Foucault, Derrida, Barthes and Deleuze. However
these names merely scratch the surface of a vibrant and innovative
body of theory that has been produced in France over the last six
decades. As well as a substantial interview with Sorbonne professor
Bernard Vouilloux, this volume focuses on a range of theorists who
usually sit under the academic radar, especially when outside of
France: Arasse, Buci-Glucksmann, Damisch, Debray, Didi-Huberman,
Heinich, Marin, Schefer and Stiegler. Also discussed is the
important work on the visual by Baudrillard, Merleau-Ponty, Metz
and Nancy. All of these thinkers are given introductory and
exploratory treatment here, and are allowed to talk between
themselves. By looking at a wider set of theories and theorists
relating to the visual, the debates are able to cross-fertilize,
with the chapters divided into five major areas: phenomenology and
beyond; new art histories and genealogies; semiotics and
methodologies; memory and the body; and the digital era. This
volume brings together international scholars working within Visual
Culture and Art History, to look in detail at a range of issues in
French contemporary visual theory. The chapters cover the main
media of visual culture: fine art, cinema, museology, photography,
as well as the key philosophical coordinates of modern times -
phenomenology, structuralism and semiology, post-structuralism,
psychoanalysis, sociology, aesthetics and Marxism. Throughout, the
volume offers in-depth accounts of keywords, broad critical and
historical contexts, and close attention to the language of visual
theory. -- .
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