This book presents a new study of the visual arts and poetry in the work of three well-known French writers and artists from the mid-twentieth century—Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Henri Michaux. Each was fiercely independent, belonging to no school, academy, or political persuasion. What do they have in common? While the book’s three central essays do not initially set out to establish comparisons between these writers, common ground emerges: a shared combat against culture, a shared non-representational artistic practice. Their writing, poetry, and painting offer not a portrayal of things or ideas but rather an emanation or apparition of the unknown and the infinite, one charged with deepening art’s relation to life.
Daftar Isi
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Apparitions: Georges Bataille, Lascaux, and the ‘Birth of Art’
2. Diabolo scilicet: Pierre Klossowski: The Work of Art as Demonology
3. Emanations: The Painting and Poetry of Henri Michaux
Postface: Poésie par le gouffre
Bibliography
Index
Tentang Penulis
Charles Freeland is Assistant Professor Emeritus, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Art History and Literature, Mahidol University International College, Thailand. He is the author of
Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor: New Essays on Jacques Lacan’s The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, also published by SUNY Press.
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