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Roland Barthes contemporain
A l'occasion du centenaire de sa naissance, cet ouvrage restitue l'impact de la pensée de R. Barthes sur ses contemporains en matière d'art plastique, de photographie, de chorégraphie ou de mise en scène. L'auteure revient sur les concepts majeurs développés par le philosophe : le neutre, le vivre ensemble, le discours amoureux, le plaisir du texte, les mythologies autour des images, etc.
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Poet Against The Machine
De la poésie sonore jusqu’au numérique en passant par le rap, Poet Against The Machine raconte l’histoire politique des machines, des médias et de la technologie dans la poésie hors du livre. À l’heure du tout-numérique, cet essai revient sur les contre-cultures poétiques sur scène, dans les festivals et les communautés alternatives et interroge la prétendue neutralité des médiums. Que ce soit avec un magnétophone ou un algorithme, l’humain et la machine sont en constante interaction dans une lutte créative et symbolique. Dans cet état de modernité technique avancée où le média a autant de place que le texte, les hiérarchies sont bousculées, laissant la possibili...
Les Mythologies individuelles
La mythologie individuelle surgit au 20e siècle en même temps que le culte du moi. En hybridant récit de soi et photographie, l’individu moderne met en scène l’histoire de son identité. Le terme apparaît d’abord dans le monde de l’art lorsque Harald Szeemann désigne sous ce nom les œuvres de Christian Boltanski et Jean Le Gac. Mais les photo-récits autobio¬gra¬phiques ont marqué tout l’imaginaire du 20e siècle, de Nadja d’André Breton aux aventures de Sophie Calle, en passant par le consacré album de famille. Caractérisé par l’écriture fragmentaire, l’archive et sa dimension intime, ce dispositif narratif en images conduit à reconsidérer le rôle de Mythologies de Roland Barthes dans ce processus de construction de soi par l’image. Cet essai retrace la généalogie, l’invention et la diffusion d’une nouvelle façon de se raconter qui interroge directement la représentation de l’identité depuis l’apparition de la photographie.
Contemporary Photography in France
This compelling publication traces the broad arc of photography’s development in France from the 1970s to the present day. A decade-by-decade account reveals unexpected points of convergence between practices that are not usually considered in a comparative perspective. These include photographic practices in contemporary art, documentary, photojournalism, and fashion. Author Olga Smith sets these practices in dialogue with French philosophy – the writings of Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and Jacques Rancière – to produce an innovative study of the intersections between the photographic image, text, practice, and theory. This analysis is guided by an understanding of photography as deeply engaged with historical, cultural, and intellectual events that defined French national experience in the contemporary period. Landscape provides a particular focus to study issues of key significance, including national identification, colonial past, legacies of modernization and environmental breakdown.
Revisionary Narratives
Revisionary Narratives examines the historical and formal evolutions of Moroccan women’s auto/biography in the last four decades, particularly its conflation with testimony and its expansion beyond literary texts. The book analyzes life narratives in Arabic, colloquial Moroccan Darija, French, and English in the fields of prison narratives, visual arts, theater, and digital media. The various case studies highlight narrative strategies women use to relate their experiences of political violence, migration, displacement, and globalization, while engaging patriarchal and (neo)imperial norms and practices. Using a transdisciplinary interpretative lens, the analyses focus on how women authors, artists, and activists collapse the boundaries between autobiography, biography, testimony, and sociopolitical commentary to revise dominant conventions of authorship, transgress oppressive definitions of gender roles and relations, and envision change. Revisionary Narratives marks auto/biography and testimony as a specific field of inquiry within the study of women’s postcolonial cultural productions in the Moroccan and, more broadly, the Maghrebi and Middle Eastern contexts.
Literature as Document
Literature as Document considers the relationship between documents and literary texts in Western Literature of the 1930s and attempts to provide answers to the problematic nature of that relationship.
Figures of Chance I
Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th–21st Centuries) proposes a transhistorical analysis that will serve as a reference work on the evolution of literary and artistic representations of chance and contingency. Alongside its multidisciplinary companion volume (Figures of Chance II), it considers how the projective and predictive capacity of societies is shaped by representations and cultural models of a reality that is understood, to varying degrees, to be contingent, unpredictable, or chaotic. Giving special emphasis to the French context while also developing broad cross-cultural comparisons, this volume examines the dialogue between evolving conceptions and changing representations of chance, from Renaissance figures of Fortune to the data-driven world of the present. Written by recognized specialists of each of the periods studied, it identifies and historicizes the main fictional and factual modes of portraying, narrating, and comprehending chance in the West.
Psychical Realism
Comprehensive overview of a highly influential contemporary artist’s work Victor Burgin counts among the most versatile figures within art and visual culture since the late 1960s. His artwork both connects with and reacts to minimalism, conceptual art, staged photography, appropriation art, video art and, more recently, computer-based imaging. As a scholar his thinking is informed by phenomenology, semiotics, poststructuralism, feminist theory, and psychoanalysis. This monograph provides a comprehensive and unique overview of Victor Burgin’s body of work over the past five decades. Identifying the concept of ‘psychical realism’ as an overarching umbrella term, Alexander Streitberger ...
A Gust of Photo-Philia
The first transnational history of photography’s accommodation in the art museum Photography was long regarded as a “middle-brow” art by the art institution. Yet, at the turn of the millennium, it became the hot, global art of our time. In this book—part institutional history, part account of shifting photographic theories and practices—Alexandra Moschovi tells the story of photography’s accommodation in and as contemporary art in the art museum. Archival research of key exhibitions and the contrasting collecting policies of MoMA, Tate, the Guggenheim, the V&A, and the Centre Pompidou offer new insights into how art as photography and photography as art have been collected and exhibited since the 1930s. Moschovi argues that this accommodation not only changed photography’s status in art, culture, and society, but also played a significant role in the rebranding of the art museum as a cultural and social site.
