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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822084103321

Autore

Bishop Michael <1938->

Titolo

Contemporary French art . Volume 1 Eleven studies / / Michael Bishop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2008

ISBN

94-012-0600-7

1-4356-6605-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Faux titre ; ; 317

Disciplina

709

Soggetti

Art, French - 20th century

Art, French - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- TRUTH AND INFINITY: BEN VAUTIER -- SHOOTING FOR TRANSCENDENCE: NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE -- BAROQUE MINIMALIST?: FRANÇOIS MORELLET -- SUBLIMATION, THE IRREDUCIBLE AND THE SACRED: LOUISE BOURGEOIS -- SEEING BEING: ALEXANDRE HOLLAN -- SPIRALLING, INFINITY, TAUTOLOGY: CLAUDE VIALLAT -- RITUAL, DESIRE, DYS-COVERING: SOPHIE CALLE -- RAGGEDNESS, FUSION AND SILENCE: BERNARD PAGÈS -- STRUCTURE, SENSUALITY, FABLE, ACCOMPANIMENT: JEAN-PIERRE PINCEMIN -- CHIMERA, CARESS, SACRED IMPLOSION: ANNETTE MESSAGER -- ABSENCE AND MELANCHOLIA, MEANING AND BEAUTY: GÉRARD TITUS-CARMEL -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Sommario/riassunto

Ben Vautier, Niki De Saint Phalle, François Morellet, Louise Bourgeois, Alexandre Hollan, Claude Viallat, Sophie Calle, Bernard Pagès, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Annette Messager, Gérard Titus-Carmel: eleven major French artists of the last forty years or so, examined in the light of their uniqueness and their rootedness, the specificities of their differing and at times overlapping plastic practices and the swirling and often highly hybridised conceptions entertained in regard to such practices. Thus does analysis range from discussion of the feisty, Fluxus-inspired, free-spirited funkiness of Ben Vautier’s work to the various modes of transcendence of trauma and haunting fear generated by the exceptional gestures of Niki de Saint Phalle and Louise Bourgeois, to



the alyrical formalism yet imbued with irony and ludicity of François Morellet, through to the serene intensities of Alexandre Hollan’s vies silencieuses , the infinite a-signatures of Claude Viallat’s adventure in the sheer joy of a poiein of self-reflexive coloration, the powerfully elegant and muscular disarticulations of Bernard Pagès’ sculpture, the great sweep through art’s history implied by Jean-Pierre Pincemin’s chameleon-like gestures, the vast swirling programme of socio-psychological analysis the arts of Annette Messager and Sophie Calle offer in their radically distinctive manners, the obsessively serialised oeuvre of Gérard Titus-Carmel allowing a burrowing deep into the opaque logic of a real though dubious ‘presence to the world’.