Contemporary French art : Gérard Garouste, Colette Deblé, Georges Rousse, Geneviève Asse, Martial Raysse, Christian Jaccard, Joël Kermarrec, Danièle Perronne, Daniel Dezeuze, Philippe Favier, Daniel Nadaud / / 2 : / Michael Bishop.

• Superior document: Faux titre : etudes de langue et littérature françaises ; 362
• Author: Bishop, Michael, 1938-
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Faux titre ; no. 362.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Gérard Garouste, Colette Deblé, Georges Rousse, Geneviève Asse, Martial Raysse, Christian Jaccard, Joël Kermarrec, Danièle Perronne, Daniel Dezeuze, Philippe Favier, Daniel Nadaud: after the eleven essays of Contemporary French Art 1 , devoted to major artists from Ben Vautier and Niki de Saint Phalle to Annette Messager and Gérard Titus-Carmel, the present volume pursues its interrogations of the what , the how and the why of contemporary plastic production of some of France’s finest practitioners. If, as ever, such production can reveal elements of an interweaving of individualized preoccupations and modes, endless specificities demarcate and affirm originalities that pure theory and its leveling anonymity may obscure. Thus is it that Gérard Garouste is alone in that obsession with ‘indianness’ and ‘classicalness’; that Colette Deblé’s gesture is drawn implacably to the unseenness of female representation; that Georges Rousse plunges photography into the realm of matter’s poetic sacredness; that Geneviève Asse traverses a pure seemingness of abstraction to attain to an intimacy of silence; that Martial Raysse’s ‘hygiene of vision’ may endlessly renew and hybridize itself. Christian Jaccard, too, will explore with uniqueness an art of materiality at the frontier of metaphysics; Joël Kermarrec will offer us the inimitable exquisite traces of surging desire and deception; Danièle Perronne’s boxes and stringings, her paintings and her sheetings will unfold a psychic infinity at the heart of form. And, if Daniel Dezeuze seeks namelessness and pure structuration, the latter yet surge forth via works that relentlessly identify a gesture so distant, we may feel, from the at once sobering and ceremonial microproliferations of a Philippe Favier or the tense but genial articulations of Daniel Nadaud’s sculptural imagination.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- UNREPRESENTING MEANING: GÉRARD GAROUSTE -- WINDOWS UPON THE UNSEEN: COLETTE DEBLÉ -- THE LIGHT OF DEATH, A SACREDNESS OF DOING: GEORGES ROUSSE -- THE INTIMACY OF SILENCE: GENEVIÈVE ASSE -- HYGIENE, THOUGHT, QUEST, CONSENT: MARTIAL RAYSSE -- THE ENDLESS IMPRINTING OF BEING: CHRISTIAN JACCARD -- DESIRE AND DECEPTION, THE METONYMIES OF ARTIFICE: JOËL KERMARREC -- THE PLASTIC LIFE OF THE PSYCHE: DANIÈLE PERRONNE -- STRUCTURE AND AERATION, FREEDOM AND THE UNNAMEABLE: DANIEL DEZEUZE -- PROLIFERATION, MUTATION, PHANTASM, THE CEREMONY OF THE REAL: PHILIPPE FAVIER -- THE ART OF WAR AND PEACE: DANIEL NADAUD -- CONCLUSION -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.