The Visual World of French Theory: Figurations

by Sarah Wilson and Sarah Wilson

This revelatory book focuses on a remarkable series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s--Sartre, Deleuze, Bourdieu, and Foucault among them--and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement. Each encounter involved either a mutual engagement or the writing of critical texts or catalogue prefaces--texts that illuminate not only the work of the artists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300162812
• ISBN13: 9780300162813
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 10.4"