L'Assassinat de L'Experience Par la Peinture, Monory/The Assassination Of Experience By Painting, Monory

L'Assassinat de L'Experience Par la Peinture, Monory/The Assassination Of Experience By Painting, Monory
ISBN-10
9058678814
ISBN-13
9789058678812
Category
Art
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2014-01-14
Publisher
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Author
Jean-François Lyotard

Description

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.

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