Poetry in Painting : : Writings on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics / / Joana Masó, Hélène Cixous, Marta Segarra.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Cixous, Hélène,; Masó, Joana,; Segarra, Marta,
• MitwirkendeR: Masó, Joana,; Segarra, Marta,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.) :; 8 colour illustrations

The first book by Hélène Cixous on painting and the contemporary artsThis collection gathers most of Hélène Cixous' texts devoted to contemporary artists, such as the painter Nancy Spero, the photographer Andres Serrano, the visual artist Roni Horn, the fashion designer Sonia Rykiel and the choreographer Karine Saporta, among others. The artworks belong to different genres and media - photography, painting, installations, film, choreography and fashion design - while the commentaries all deal with some of Hélène Cixous' privileged themes: exile, war, violence (against women) and exclusion, as well as love, memory, beauty and tenderness.Neither art criticism nor a collection of critical essays, Hélène Cixous responds to these artworks as a poet, reading them as if they were poems. Written between 1985 and 2010, most of these essays are unpublished in English, or published only in rare catalogues or art books.Key FeaturesCombines poetic, theoretical and critical writing and Cixous' unique methodologyAddresses an important collection of contemporary artists, including Americans Nancy Spero and Roni Horn, the London artist Maria Chevska, the Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson, the filmmaker Ruth Bekermann, the French choreographer Karine Saporta and the French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel.Treats a range of media and genre: photography, painting, installations, film, choreography, fashion design

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- Illustrations -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Hélène Cixous, in Art as in Dreams -- 1. Paintings -- 2. Spero’s Dissidances -- 3. Ernest’s Imagic -- 4. See the Neverbeforeseen -- 5. Portraits of Portraits: The Very Day/Light of Roni Horn -- 6. K – A Notebook -- 7. Shit, No Present: Faecetious Serrano -- 8. Inheriting/Inventing with Jeffrey Gibson -- 9. Filming the Becoming Invisible -- 10. Sonia Rykiel in Translation -- 11. The Train Stop, or Anna’s Resurrections -- Index