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The Visual World of French Theory - Wilson, Sarah - Yale University Press
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The Visual World of French TheoryFigurations
Shortlisted for the 2012 R.H. Gapper Book Prize awarded by the Society for French Studies (UK Award)
This revelatory book focuses on a remarkable series of
encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s
and 1970s—Sartre, Deleuze, Bourdieu, and Foucault among them—and the
artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the
Narrative Figuration movement. Each encounter involved either a mutual
engagement or the writing of critical texts or catalogue prefaces—texts
that illuminate not only the work of the artists but also the production
of the philosopher-writer concerned. Although the protagonists
of “French theory” are universally known and studied, their thought is
presented without a sense of contiguity, chronology, or context in
translation, while the artists with whom they engaged are virtually
unknown outside the French-speaking world. This account restores the
lived context of artistic production. What Bourdieu called “cultural
competence” is seen to be essential for these particular philosophers,
and Sarah Wilson shows that it is through them that the figurative art
of 1970s France can be introduced to the audience it deserves.
Sarah Wilson is professor of modern art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
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