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Discussing Language - Dialogues with Wallace L. Chafe, Noam Chomsky, Algirdas J. Greimas, M. A. K. Halliday, Peter Hartmann, George Lakoff, Sydney M. Lamb, Andre Martinet, James McCawley, Sebastian K. Saumjan, Jacques Bouveresse (Hardcover, Reprint 2017)
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This text contains contributions from two Kant conferences which
took place in Leuven and Cerisy-la-Salle in 1993.
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."
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."
The second volume of Jean-Francois Lyotard's Miscellaneous
d104s, Contemporary Artists, gathers thirty-nine essays by Lyotard
that deal with twenty-seven influential and innovative contemporary
artists: Luciano Berio, Richard Lidner, Rene Guiffrey, Gianfranco
Baruchello, Henri Maccheroni, Riwan Tromeur, Albert Ayme, Manuel
Casimiro, Ruth Francken, Barnett Newman, Jean-Luc Parant, Francois
Lapouge, Sam Francis, Andre Dubreuil, Joseph Kosuth, Sarah Flohr,
Lino Centi, Gigliola Fazzini, Bracha Lichtenberger Ettinger, Henri
Martin, Michel Bouvet, Corinne Filippi, Stig Brogger, Francois
Rouan, Pierre Skira Pastels, and Beatrice Casadesus. Many of these
texts were originally published in catalogs; others were published
in hard-to-find journals. This volume of Miscellaneous d104s is
illustrated with more than sixty images, mainly in color, of works
of art discussed by Lyotard in these writings."
The first volume in the new series Jean-Francois Lyotard: Writings
on Contemporary Art and Artists is dedicated to the Dutch Abstract
Expressionist painter, sculptor, and poet Karel Appel (1921 2006).
Originally published in German, the book's original French text,
written in 1992 as the result of a correspondence with Karel Appel,
is here published for the first time. In his text about Appel,
Lyotard reflects on the nature and function of color as it is used
by the artist. Karel Appel, A Gesture of Colour brings together, in
a special color section, twenty-five color reproductions of
paintings discussed by Lyotard. The layout of this remarkable art
historical survey of Appel's work emphasizes the bilingual
texts.Lyotard presents Karel Appel's "matterism" as an offer of
presence, presence deferred it is the visual where every predicate
is suspended, the visual touched, a "gesture" of color more than a
property of color, an appearance at the edge of the abyss.
Christine Buci-Glucksmann's epilogue situates Karel Appel, a
Gesture of Colour within the whole of Lyotard's writings on art and
his subsequent work."
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