Poetry in painting
Subtitle: writings on contemporary arts and aesthetics
By: Hélène Cixous ; edtied by Marta Segarra and Joana Masó
Contributors: Segarra, Marta; Masó, Joana
Series: Frontiers of theory
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780748647446; 9780748647453; 9780748649617; 9780748649600
Subjects: Modern Art; Aesthetics; Themes, motives
Description: "This collection gathers most of Hélène Cixous' texts devoted to contemporary artists, such as the painter Nancy Spero, the photographer Andres Serrano, the visual artist Roni Horn, the fashion designer Sonia Rykiel and the choreographer Karine Saporta, among others. The artworks belong to different genres and media - photography, painting, installations, film, choreography and fashion design - while the commentaries all deal with some of Hélène Cixous' privileged themes: exile, war, violence (against women) and exclusion, as well as love, memory, beauty and tenderness.

Neither art criticism nor a collection of critical essays, Hélène Cixous responds to these artworks as a poet, reading them as if they were poems. Written between 1985 and 2010, most of these essays are unpublished in English, or published only in rare catalogues or art books."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.