Miscellaneous Texts, Volume I

TWO-VOLUME SET!Buy volume 4, I & 4, II together and receive 20 discount. You only pay 109 instead of 129! > Ce quatrime volume dans la collection ddie aux crits de Jean-Franois Lyotard sur l'art contemporain et les artistes contient neuf essais sur l'esthtique gnrale et la thorie de l'art. Ces essais sont publis en franais, la langue originale, avec les traductions en anglais. La plupart de ces textes, prservs la Bibliothque Littraire Jacques Doucet Paris, sont publis en ce lieu pour la premire fois. Ils ne manifestent pas un autre Lyotard que celui que nous connaissons de ses crits majeurs. Mais ils couvrent l'entire priode de sa production, de 1969 1997, et rendent le dveloppement de sa philosophie de l'art plus explicite. Aprs la conception libidinale dans ses premiers crits sur l'art, on constate chez Lyotard vers 1980 le tournant kantien qui place sa philosophie de l'art sous l'gide du sublime. Ces essais suggrent ce que signifient, pour Jean-Franois Lyotard, la main du peintre tout comme le regard de l'amoureux de la rsonance des couleurs. This fourth volume in the series devoted to Jean-Franois Lyotard's writings on contemporary art and artists presents nine essays on general aesthetics and the theory of art. They are published in the original French along with English translations on facing pages. Most of these texts, preserved in the Lyotard archives of the Bibliothque Littraire Jacques Doucet in Paris, are published here for the first time. They do not reveal another Lyotard' than the one whom we know through his major writings. Nevertheless, they cover the whole period of his production, from 1969 to 1997; and they make the development of his philosophy of art explicit. After the libidinal' conception of art in his early writings, the Kantian twist' of around 1980 places his view on art under the aegis of the sublime. These essays specify what, for Jean-Franois Lyotard, the hand of the painter means, as well as the gaze of the viewer, enamoured with resonant colours. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).