The Assassination of Experience by Painting, Monory - Jean-Francois Lyotard: Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists - Jean-Francois Lyotard - Books - Leuven University Press - 9789058678812 - January 15, 2014
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The Assassination of Experience by Painting, Monory - Jean-Francois Lyotard: Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists English And French, 1 edition

Jean-Francois Lyotard

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The Assassination of Experience by Painting, Monory - Jean-Francois Lyotard: Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists English And French, 1 edition

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.


288 pages, 32, 32 colour plates

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released January 15, 2014
Original release date 2013
ISBN13 9789058678812
Publishers Leuven University Press
Pages 288
Dimensions 237 × 169 × 24 mm   ·   657 g
Language French  
Editor Parret, Herman

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