Lyotard and the figural in performance, art, and writing. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kiff Bamford.
• Authors: Bamford, Kiff
• Contents: Cover; Halftitle; Series page; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Art and Theory; Why Performance Art?; Why Lyotard?; Performing the figural; Secondary Literature; 1. The figural; Yingmei Duan; Defining the figural; Presence; Arrive-t-il? ' 'Is it happening?'; Marina Abramović's Seven 'Easy' Pieces; Seedbed; 'Something between breathing in and breathing out . . .'; Buren Is Not Performing; Duchamp in France; Fried on Presence; 2. The Libidinal; Introduction; Lyotard on Monory; 'Painting as a Libidinal Set-up'; 'Theatrical-representative Set-up'; Desire and Lack. Deleuze and LyotardLet Us Start with the figural; Bacon and Adami; Negation in Discourse, Figure; 3. Les Immatériaux\: What is Lyotard's Attitude to the Body?; Introduction to Les Immatériaux; 'A Body in Movement'; Communication and The Differend; Acconci's Anchors; Communication in Les Immatériaux; The 'Immaterial' Body; Lyotard and the 'Phenomenological Body'; Critical Returns; Nachträglichkeit and Anamnesis; Affect-Phrase; Sexual Difference; 4. The Sublime; Presenting the Unpresentable; 'The Honour of Painting'; From October to Artforum; Edmund Burke's Sublime. The Sublime and the Avant-GardeThe 'Swelling' of the Anxious Mind; The Sublime and the Differend; The Differend of Art; 5. Temporality and the fi gural; Return Upon the Return; A Sign without Sense; The figural Dislocation of Arrive-t-il?; Passibility; Advent; Spasm; In Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: London New York, New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (225 pages)
• Subjects: 700.1; Arts -- Philosophy; ART -- Performance; ART -- Reference; Arts -- Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441108753; 1441108750
• Related ISBNs: 9781472522443; 9781441167071; 1441167072
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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