Jan Fabre
Jan Fabre

Author: Jan Fabre

Publisher: Fonds Mercator

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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Jan Fabre, born in Antwerp in 1958, is one of the most innovative and versatile artists of his generation. Over the past 30 years, he has produced work as a visual artist, performance artist, director and author, expanding the horizons of every genre. Homo Faber is the first comprehensive overview to deal with all aspects of Fabre's visual art. It discusses key themes and ideas in his performance, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography and film work, including the concept of metamorphosis, his use of human bones and echoes of the Old Masters in his work. This volume covers the whole of Fabre's artistic career, starting from works of the 1970s and 80s, when he exhibited himself in a shop window and staged performances in which he burned spectators' money and leading up to his most recent sculptural still lifes of owls' heads and Pushpin Men.

Jan Fabre
Jan Fabre

Author: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13:

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Scultore, disegnatore, scrittore, regista, editore: sono solo alcuni dei campi creativi investigati da Jan Fabre, un artista che da oltre trent'anni porta avanti un'intensa ricerca interdisciplinare e che presenta, in questo volume, l'opera installata presso Casa La Marrana di Ameglia (La Spezia), intitolata Il Rifugio (Per la Tomba del computer sconosciuto) e costituita da un ammasso di 100 croci di legno ricoperte di inchiostro blu Bic, su cui sono scritti nomi di insetti. Le immagini, scattate dal fotografo Aurelio Amendola, sono precedute da un saggio critico di Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, curatore dell'esposizione, e dai testi tratti da una conversazione tra Jan Fabre, Luigi Ficacci, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio e Alberto Garutti. Segue una postfazione di Achille Bonito Oliva. Edizione a tiratura limitata. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali

Narrative Interludes
Narrative Interludes

Author: Tili Boon Cuillé

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0802038425

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Juxtaposing pre-eminent and popular writers, Cuill? reads their fictional works in light of their treatises on art and society, exploring the significance of musical tableaux that have revolutionized the form and function of music in the text.

Enlightenment and Pathology
Enlightenment and Pathology

Author: Anne C. Vila

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780801858093

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If moods are as contagious as colds, and wickedness as debilitating as a bad diet, inquiries into assorted discourses in 18th-century France still have much to tell. Author Anne Vila shows that multiple junctures between the body and the mind promoted a steady commerce of speculation and discussion between science and the social salons of the time. 9 illustrations.

In Praise of Theatre
In Praise of Theatre

Author: Alain Badiou

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-10-12

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0745687008

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In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou’s latest work on the ‘most complete of the arts,’ the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike, elaborates the theory of the theatre developed by Badiou in works such as Rhapsody for the Theatre and the ‘Theses on Theatre’ and enquires into the status of a theatre that would be adequate to our 'contemporary, market-oriented chaos.' In a departure from his usual emphasis upon canonical figures of the stage such as Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, Badiou devotes In Praise of Theatre largely to a consideration of contemporary practitioners, including Jan Fabre, Brigitte Jacques and Romeo Castellucci. In addition, the book features an incisive analysis of the precarious status of the theatre today, in which Badiou describes not only the current threats to the theatre from the right, but the far more insidious threat from the left.

Learning from Lying
Learning from Lying

Author: Julia Luisa Abramson

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780874139006

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"Learning from Lying narrates a new literary history as seen through the lens of mystification. Beginning with an examination of mystification's elaboration during the century of Enlightenment, the book accounts for mystification's distinctiveness relative to other deceptive forms, particularly forgery, and provides a timely intervention in current debates about the study of fakes. Readings of works by Denis Diderot, Prosper Merimee, and Wolfgang Hildesheimer follow out the cosmopolitan roots of the genre in the Republic of Letters and show how it theorizes literature through practical experiment. For when textual imitation is revealed, it unveils the necessary collusion between reader and writer that allows literature to exist as such."--BOOK JACKET.