The Enigmatic Body: Essays on the Arts

by Jean Louis Schefer and Jean-Louis Schefer

The Enigmatic Body presents the work of an important French theorist. The selection represents the whole of Jean-Louis Schefer's career, from the 1960s, when he was influenced by structuralism, to his more lyrical and autobiographical essays of the 1990s, which meditate on the role of the spectator in relation to art practice. Schefer considers the very nature of art, film and writing through his close examination of artists as diverse as Uccello,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521378257
• ISBN13: 9780521378253
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"