The enigmatic body
essays on the arts
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Author
Contributions
- Smith, Paul, 1954 Nov. 23- - Contributor
Publication
1995 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Language
English
Word Count
46,500 words, Guess
Page Count
186 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1098974M
- ISBN-100521372046
- OCLC Control Number31412180
- OCLC Control Numberenigmaticbodyess0000sche
- Library of Congress Control Number94023722
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- Goodreads6918139
- LibraryThing3647580
Classifications
- DDC700
- LCCNX640 .S34 1995
Description
The Enigmatic Body: Essays on the Arts by Jean Louis Schefer presents for the first time in English a selection of essays from the work of one of the most important French theorists of today. The essays represent the whole of Schefer's career - from the 1960s, when he was influenced by structuralism, to his more lyrical and autobiographical work of the 1990s, which meditate on the role of the spectator in relation to art practice. Schefer considers the very nature of art, film, and writing through his close examination of artists as diverse as Uccello, Poussin, and Cy Twombly and writers such as Paul Valery and Roland Barthes. These provocative essays all register the writer's direct confrontation with various media in a way that stands as a corrective to the formal traditions of interpretation and criticism. Autobiographical, yet theoretically informed and historically detailed, Schefer's work offers some of the most original interpretations of art available today.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism
Other Editions
- The enigmatic body: essays on the arts
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