Porous Boundaries. Texts and Images in Twentieth-Century French Culture

Jérôme GAME [dir.], Porous Boundaries. Texts and Images in Twentieth-Century French Culture, Oxford / Bern / Berlin / Bruxelles / Francfort-sur-le-Main /  New York / Vienne, Peter Lang (Modern French Identities), 2007, 164 p.
ISBN 978-3-03910-568-7
US-ISBN 978-0-8204-7595-0


SUMMARY

After the key moments of the livre d'artiste (from Manet/Mallarmé to Picasso/Reverdy) and Surrealist art, how did the text/image relationship evolve in twentieth-century French culture? By what epistemological and aesthetic frameworks was it determined and, in turn, what new signs and practices, what new meanings did it produce? This book offers a series of answers to these questions by looking at several case studies including Marguerite Duras' filmic rewriting, Pierre Klossowski's shift from writing to painting, contemporary video-poetry, Gilles Deleuze's philosophical engagement with Bacon and Giacometti, and CD-Rom aesthetics. What brings the various essays in this volume together is a challenging new reading of the text/image relationship as a porous boundary through which texts and images no longer merely illustrate or stand by each other but interpenetrate, hybridise or restructure one another.


CONTENTS

Jérôme Game: Genealogies of the Porous: The Text/Image Relationship from Representation to Differentiation
Hervé Castanet: Inhuman Diana
Jacques Rancière: The Space of Words: From Mallarmé to Broodthaers
Marie-Claire Ropars: On Filmic Rewriting: Contamination of the Arts or Destruction of Art's Identity? 
Raymond Bellour: Picture-Book
Nathalie Wourm: Poetry in Moving Image: The French Avant-Garde
Jean-Michel Rey: The Discourse of the Exhibition
Timothy Mathews: Space, Place and Virtuality: Gilles Deleuze with Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti
Jean-Marie Gleize: An Incoherent Bleue.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jérôme Game is Assistant Professor of Film Studies and Philosophy at the American University of Paris. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 2002 and was a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities at University College London (2002-2004). He is currently working on a book on Jean Eustache.