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Visual Arts – Essays

 
The Visual Arts – Essays series aims to provide a critical forum for artists, musicians, philosophers, sociologists to provide perspectives on the creative practices at work today along with a reflection on the conceptual tools needed to understand them.
 
Thinking from the Border - Methodological and Epistemological Experimentations between the Arts and the Human Sciences
2019
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This publication gathers the outcomes of a research project bringing together sociologists, art historians and artists to investigate the frontier as both a subject and an epistemic framework.
Penser depuis la frontière - Expérimentations méthodologiques et épistémologiques entre art et sciences humaines
2018
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This publication gathers the outcomes of a research project bringing together sociologists, art historians and artists to investigate the frontier as both a subject and an epistemic framework.
François Boutonnet - Mnemosyne - A History of the Arts of Memory from Antiquity to Contemporary Multimedia Creation
2016
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François Boutonnet's Mnemosyne offers the first consideration of the “Arts of Memory” from antiquity to contemporary art, connecting it to mind mapping in digital culture.
Sophie Orlando - British Black Art - Debates on the Western Art History
2016
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With this essay on Black British artists from 1970 onward, Sophie Orlando explores their influences on the Western contemporary art and introduces readers to an important, long-marginalized movement, recontextualizing it with groundbreaking scholarship.
Sophie Orlando - British Black Art - L\'histoire de l\'art occidental en débat
2016
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With this essay on Black British artists from 1970 onward, Sophie Orlando explores their influences on the Western contemporary art and introduces readers to an important, long-marginalized movement, recontextualizing it with groundbreaking scholarship.
Dominique Peysson - The Image-Matter - Emerging Materials & Imaginary Metamorphosis
2016
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With its title echoing to Gilles Deleuze works The Movement Image and The Time Image, The Image-Matter, between philosophy, contemporary art and science, offers tools to create new mental images to understand this new vision of the world shaped by nanotechnologies and help us to do the necessary metamorphosis of our imaginary.
Dominique Peysson - L\'image-matière - Matériaux émergents et métamorphoses imaginaires
2016
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With its title echoing to Gilles Deleuze works The Movement Image and The Time Image, The Image-Matter, between philosophy, contemporary art and science, offers tools to create new mental images to understand this new vision of the world shaped by nanotechnologies and help us to do the necessary metamorphosis of our imaginary.
François Boutonnet - Mnémosyne - Une histoire des arts de la mémoire de l\'Antiquité à la création 	multimédia contemporaine
2013
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François Boutonnet's Mnemosyne offers the first consideration of the “Arts of Memory” from antiquity to contemporary art, connecting it to mind mapping in digital culture.
Denis Baron - The Mutant Flesh - Fabrication of a Posthuman
2008
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This study on the fabrication of Posthumanity questions us on the limits of the human, its boundaries and its possibilities in our “biotech” era. It examines the fundamental distinction between natural and artificial, nature and technology, human and machine, body and flesh.
Denis Baron - La chair mutante - Fabrique d\'un posthumain
2008
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This study on the fabrication of Posthumanity questions us on the limits of the human, its boundaries and its possibilities in our “biotech” era. It examines the fundamental distinction between natural and artificial, nature and technology, human and machine, body and flesh.
Narrativity: How Visual Arts, Cinema and Literature Are Telling the World Today
2006
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This book considers the importance given today to the research for new narrative modes in artistic practices: visual arts, cinema, and literature.
Jeux et enjeux de la narrativité dans les pratiques contemporaines (arts visuels, cinéma, littérature)
2006
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This book considers the importance given today to the research for new narrative modes in artistic practices: visual arts, cinema, and literature.
Elvan Zabunyan - Black Is A Color - A History of African American Art
2004
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In Black is a Color, contemporary art historian and curator Elvan Zabunyan proposes a new approach to contemporary art and its history through the practice of Black American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to today.
Elvan Zabunyan - Black Is A Color - Une histoire de l\'art africain-américain contemporain
2004
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In Black is a Color, contemporary art historian and curator Elvan Zabunyan proposes a new approach to contemporary art and its history through the practice of Black American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to today.
Keep This Sex Out Of My Sight
2003
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A study, by five women, on the artistic representations of the female body (essays by Chrystel Besse, Marie-Joseph Bertini, Arlette Fontan, Françoise Gaillard, and Elvan Zabunyan).
Cachez ce sexe que je ne saurais voir
2003
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A study, by five women, on the artistic representations of the female body (essays by Chrystel Besse, Marie-Joseph Bertini, Arlette Fontan, Françoise Gaillard, and Elvan Zabunyan).
Contemporary Practices - Art as Experience
1999
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How to think reality through the experimental and interpretative aspects of arts (essays by Paul Ardenne, Pascal Beausse, and Laurent Goumarre).
Pratiques contemporaines - L\'art comme expérience
1999
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How to think reality through the experimental and interpretative aspects of arts (essays by Paul Ardenne, Pascal Beausse, and Laurent Goumarre).
Michel Gaillot - Multiple Meaning - Techno, An Artistic and Political Laboratory of the Present
1998
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Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries instituted in the social space (essay by Michel Gaillot; interviews with Michel Maffesoli and Jean-Luc Nancy).
Michel Gaillot - Sens multiple - La techno, un laboratoire artistique et politique du présent
1998
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Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries instituted in the social space (essay by Michel Gaillot; interviews with Michel Maffesoli and Jean-Luc Nancy).
Après Deleuze - Philosophie et esthétique du cinéma
1997
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This essay considers Deleuze's film theory on both an epistemological and historical angle and brings forward recent studies on cinema's aesthetics and philosophy.
L\'Esthétique des philosophes
1996
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Ten French, American and German philosophers come together in discussion around several of the major problems raised today in æsthetics.
Thierry de Duve - Clement Greenberg entre les lignes
1996
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A rereading of the work of the famous and controversial art critic.
Thierry de Duve - Du nom au nous
1995
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The critical importance of the theme of “designation” in arts and its gradual emergence in the thinking of Thierry de Duve since 1985.
Thierry de Duve - La déposition - À propos de « Déçue la Mariée se rhabilla » de Sylvie Blocher
1995
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An analysis of an installation by Sylvie Blocher.
Jean-Yves Bosseur - Sound and the Visual Arts - Intersections between Music and Plastic Arts Today
1992
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Art production of the last few decades has given rise to an increasing number of ambiguous or paradoxical situations related to the musical form (score, stage area, lute-making, CD, video...) thus transcending the traditional divisions between space, time and movement.
Jean-Yves Bosseur - Le sonore et le visuel - Intersections musique-arts plastiques aujourd\'hui
1992
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Art production of the last few decades has given rise to an increasing number of ambiguous or paradoxical situations related to the musical form (score, stage area, lute-making, CD, video...) thus transcending the traditional divisions between space, time and movement.
François Dagognet - In Favour of Today\'s Art - From the Object of Art to the Art of the Object
1992
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A compelling read on the status of the object in contemporary art and design.
François Dagognet - Pour l\'art d\'aujourd\'hui - De l\'objet de l\'art à l\'art de l\'objet
1992
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A compelling read on the status of the object in contemporary art and design.
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