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Julien Green
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Shingu, 1937
Soixante-douze chefs-d'œuvre reproduits en grand format et en couleurs invitent à un parcours passionnant dans l'univers de Susumu Shingu. Un texte clair et précis situe son œuvre dans les XXe et XXIe siècles.
La démocratie anesthésiée
Quel objectif poursuit la démocratie aujourd’hui ? Un point de croissance supplémentaire ? Une meilleure gouvernance avec de meilleurs professionnels de la politique ? Un taux de chômage plus bas ? Plus de temps de loisirs disponibles pour se divertir plus longtemps ? Faut-il se satisfaire d’un tel rabaissement consumériste et désenchanté ? Sans qu’on y prête attention, en trente ans, le projet émancipateur fondé sur la capacité des êtres humains à se libérer de leurs servitudes s’est peu à peu effacé. Le sauve-qui-peut de l’emploi à n’importe quel prix a remplacé la mise en valeur du travail. Sous la pression des intérêts financiers, l’économie est devenue ...
Peter Klasen
Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée du 16 mai au 6 juin 2009 à la galerie Laurent Strouk à Paris. Depuis le début des années 1960, Peter Klasen (1935) a construit un langage pictural original, fondé sur l'utilisation conjointe de la photographies et de l'acrylique, sensible aux déchirements de notre temps, à ses contradictions, à l'aliénation douloureuse qui en résulte pour les êtres humains. Pionnier de la Figuration Narrative, il se veut une conscience aiguë et exigeante de la vie contemporaine et des interrogations qui en naissent.
Assassination of experience by painting, Monory
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.
At the Periphery of the Center
At the Periphery of the Center is the first comparison of two of France’s most important twentieth-century authors, Julien Green and Marguerite Yourcenar. It examines textual elements in their plays and novels to draw conclusions about the ways that they represent homosexuality in their texts. Both Yourcenar and Green turned to drama to explore aspects of same-sex desire that they felt unable to express in their prose. The analysis of their plays shows that an emphasis on dialogue and action makes drama a particularly appropriate genre for writing about homosexuality because it affords an author distance and therefore protection from the “proclivities” of his characters. The chapters o...
Histamine and Anti-Histaminics
It was an agreable, though strenuous task to edit a book with so many distin guished contributors, on a subject to which I have given half of my life. In 1959, when Prof. O. EICHLER invited me to edit a book on "Histamine and Anti histaminics", as a supplement to HEFFTER'S Handbuch, I thought the task could be done in three years. Now, five years are gone and only half is fulfilled. Though, so far as the "Histamine" part of the book is concerned, the initial plan has been followed very closely, we had to leave the Anti-histaminics for another volume of unpredictable dimensions. In 1924, eight pages inserted in a Chapter on M utterkorn, by ARTHUR R. CUSHING were considered enough, in vol. II,...
The Spectre of Hegel
Louis Althusser is remembered today as the scourge of humanist Marxism, but that was his later incarnation, an identity formed by years grappling with the intellectual inheritance of Hegel and Catholicism. The Spectre of Hegel collects the writings of the young Althusser, before his final epistemological break with the philosopher's work in 1953. The Spectre of Hegel gives a unique insight into Althusser's engagement with a philosophy he would later renounce.
