ISBN: 9780300162813 - The Visual World of French Theory: Figurations (11 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. CONDITION NOTES: SYNOPSIS: This revelatory book focuses on a remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970sâ"Sartre, Deleuze, Bourdieu, and Foucault among themâ"and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement. Each encounter involved either a mutual engagement or the writing of critical texts or catalogue prefacesâ"texts that illuminate not only the work of the artists but also the production of the philosopher-writer concerned. Although the protagonists of âFrench theoryâ are universally known and studied, their thought is presented without a sense of contiguity, chronology, or context in translation, while the artists with whom they engaged are virtually unknown outside the French-speaking world. This account restores the lived context of artistic production. What Bourdieu called âcultural competenceâ is seen to be essential for these particular philosophers, and Sarah Wilson shows that it is through them that the figurative art of 1970s France can be introduced to the audience it deserves.…

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Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 271 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "This work focuses on the series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction: Witnesses of the future, painters of their times; Interlude: the Datcha--painting as manifesto; From Sartre to Althusser: Lapoujade, Cremonini and the turn to antihumanism; Pierre Bourdieu, Bernard Rancillac: 'the image of the image'; Louis Althusser, Lucio Fanti: the USSR as phantom; Gerard Fromanger: periodisations - Deleuze, Foucault, Guattari. Felix Guattari: Night and day; Lyotard/Monory: postmodern romantics; Derrida/Adami: the truth in painting?; Conclusion: In Beaubourg, 1977/2007. Size: 4to. Collectible.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Slight shelf wear to extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. Hardcover with dust jacket. 20x26,5cm. 271pp. As new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Cloth, 26 cm, 271 pp, color and black & white illustrations throughout. Half-inch tear from bottom edge of jacket along cover hinge. Jacket is slightly shelf worn. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Hardback. Condition: Very good. 21 x 27cm 268pp very good hardback in dust jacket signed by the author on the title page. Sartre, Althusser, Bourdieu, Deleuze, Foucault, Lyotard and others make up the various chapters, illustrated with colour and black and white reproductions.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Brand New. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in dark blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 271pp. B/w photographic frontispiece, colour and b/w photographs, colour art throughout. (36/1).…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.