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 (fromManet/Mallarmé to Picasso/Reverdy) and Surrealist art, how did thetext/image relationship evolve in twentieth-century French culture? Bywhat epistemological and aesthetic frameworks was it determined and, inturn, what new signs and practices, what new meanings did it produce?This book offers a series of answers to these questions by looking atseveral case studies including Marguerite Duras' filmic rewriting,Pierre Klossowski's shift from writing to painting, contemporaryvideo-poetry, Gilles Deleuze's philosophical engagement with Bacon andGiacometti, and CD-Rom aesthetics. What brings the various essays inthis volume together is a challenging new reading of the text/imagerelationship as a porous boundary through which texts andimages no longer merely illustrate or stand by each other butinterpenetrate, hybridise or restructure one another.
CONTENTS
Jérôme Game: Genealogies of the Porous: The Text/Image Relationshipfrom 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 orDestruction 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 andAlberto Giacometti
Jean-Marie Gleize: An Incoherent Bleue.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jérôme Game is Assistant Professor of Film Studies and Philosophy atthe American University of Paris. He received his Ph.D. from CambridgeUniversity in 2002 and was a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in theHumanities at University College London (2002-2004). He is currentlyworking on a book on Jean Eustache.