Modern French Visual Theory

A Critical Reader
Herausgeber: Saint, Nigel; Stafford, Andy

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Produktbeschreibung

When French theory went global in the late twentieth century its visual wing was understandably built on the work of its best-known thinkers, notably Foucault, Derrida, Barthes and Deleuze. However these names merely scratch the surface of a vibrant and innovative body of theory that has been produced in France over the last six decades. This volume focuses on a range of theorists who usually languish under the academic radar, especially when outside of France: Arasse, Buci-Glucksmann, Damisch, Debray, Didi-Huberman, Heinich, Marin, Schefer and Stiegler. Also discussed is the important work on the visual of Baudrillard, Merleau-Ponty, Metz and Nancy. Five major areas of French contemporary visual theory are studied by international scholars working within Visual Culture and Art History: phenomenology and beyond; new art histories and genealogies; semiotics and methodologies; memory and the body; and the digital era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 137mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780719081309
• ISBN-10: 0719081300
• Artikelnr.: 36269991

Autorenporträt

Nigel Saint and Andy Stafford both teach French Studies in the University of Leeds

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Nigel Saint and Andy Stafford Part 1. Precursors:
Phenomenology and Semiotics 1. 'Merleau-Ponty: The Madness of Vision'
(Nathalie Aubert) 2. 'Christian Metz: Constructing Meaning in Film'
(Martine Joly) Part 2. New Art Histories and Genealogies 3. 'Daniel
Arasse's Joyful Visual Science: In the Intimacy of History and Art' (Ralph
Dekoninck) 4. 'Dream Perspectives: Hubert Damisch, Psychoanalysis, and
Early Modern Art History' (David Packwood) 5. 'Christine Buci-Glucksmann:
the Archaeology of Shadows or the Aesthetics of Image-Flux'
(François-Xavier Gleyzon) Part 3. Representation, Mediology and Sociology
6. 'Louis Marin's Theories of Representation: between Text and Image, from
Visuality to Figurability' (Agnès Guiderdoni) 7. 'Transmission versus
Communication: Régis Debray's Mediology' (Andy Stafford) 8. 'Value,
Meaning, Method: Nathalie Heinich's Sociological Perspectives on Visual
Culture' (Shirley Jordan) Part 4. Memory, Body, Image 9. 'Seeing and
Touching: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Ground of the Image' (Ian James) 10.
'Georges Didi-Huberman: Images, Critique and Time' (Nigel Saint) 11.
'Jean-Louis Schefer: The Body of the Image' (Patrick ffrench) Part 5. The
Digital Era 12. 'Jean Baudrillard' (Paul Hegarty) 13. 'Real Time: Bernard
Stiegler and the Politics of Digitalization (Arthur Bradley) Part 6.
Afterword 14. Interview with Bernard Vouilloux (Saint and Stafford) Index