Title: Contemporary French Art 2 : Gérard Garouste, Colette Deblé, Georges Rousse, Geneviève Asse, Martial Raysse, Christian Jaccard, Joël Kermarrec, Danièle Perronne, Daniel Dezeuze, Philippe Favier, Daniel Nadand /
Authors: Bishop, Michael.
Publisher: Rodopi,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Art, French; Art, French
Abstract: "Gérard Garouste, Colette Deblé, Georges Rousse, Geneviève Asse, Martial Raysse, Christian Jaccard, Joël Kermarrec, Danièle Perronne, Daniel Dezeuze, Philippe Favier, Daniel Nadaud: after the eleven essays of Contemporary French Art 1, devoted to major artists from Ben Vautier and Niki de Saint Phalle to Annette Messager and Gérard Titus-Carmel, the present volume pursues its interrogations of the what, the how and the why of contemporary plastic production of some of France's finest practitioners"...back cover.
Contents: Unrepresenting Meaning: Gérard Garouste -- Windows Upon the Unseen: Colette Deblé; The Light of Death, a Sacredness of Doing: Georges Rousse -- The Intimacy of Silence: Geneviève Asse -- Hygiene, Thought, Quest, Consent: Martial Raysse -- The Endless Imprinting of Being: Christian Jaccard -- Desire and Deception, the Metonymies of Artifice: Joël Kermarrec -- The Plastic Life of the Psyche: Danièle Perronne -- Structure and Aeration, Freedom and the Unnameable: Daniel Dezeuze -- Proliferation, Mutation, Phantasm, the Ceremony of the Real: Philippe Favier -- The Art of War and Peace: Daniel Nadand -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography.