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The most important writings of Lyotard on contemporary art in English for the first time
Seven writings assembled in the context of the philosophy of art that Jean-François Lyotard developed in the nineteen-eighties, 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 colourist-draughtsman 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 flavours, 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.
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Contents
Table des matières
Table of contents
Herman Parret:
Préface /
Illustrations 1-6
Preface
Illustrations 7-27
Jean-François Lyotard:
Que peindre ? Adami, Arakawa, Buren
What to Paint? Adami, Arakawa, Buren
La présence
Presence
La ligne
The Line
La franchise
Frankness
L'anamnèse
Anamnesis
Le point
The Point
Le site
The Site
L'exposition
The Exposure
Lectures / Readings
Supplément I/Supplement I
Arakawa - Réserve d'événements spatiaux
Arakawa - Reserves of Spatial Events
Supplément II / Supplement II
Daniel Buren - Fà»ts
Daniel Buren - Shafts
Gérald Sfez:
Postface /
Epilogue
Illustrations 28-69
