L'assassinat de l'expérience par la peinture, Monoroy
By: Jean-François Lyotard ; sous la direction de et introduit par Herman Parret ; postface de Sarah Wilson ; traduction, Racherl Bowlby, Jeanne Bouniort & Peter W. Milne = The assassination of experience by painting, Monoroy / Jean-François Lyotard ; edited and introduced by Herman Parret ; with an epilogue by Sarah Wilson ; translated by Rachel Bowlby, Jeanne Bouniort & Peter W. Milne
Contributors: Monory, Jacques, 1934-
Series: Jean-François Lyotard. Écrits sur l'art contemporain et les artistes = -- Writings on contemporary art and artists -- VOL. VI
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leuven, Belgium
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9789058678812
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Psychology
Other titles: Assassination of experience by painting, Monoroy
Description: Lyotard met Jacques Monory in 1972, and the text on him published at that time was the first that Lyotard dedicated to contemporary art since Discourse, Figure. Lyotard's interest in the plastic arts thus fits fully within the setting of his political preoccupations. The artist-protagonist stages the recurring motifs that fascinate Lyotard: the scene of the crime, the revolver, the woman, the victim, glaciers, deserts, stars. The atmosphere of the essays on Monory is "Californian". Monory's imaginary repertoire goes well beyond the masters of modernity and is in line rather with a "modern contemporary surrealism". Both Lyotard and Monory live the "dilemma of Americanisation", the America represented by cinema, fashion, novels, music. It is in this atmosphere that Lyotard and Monory will finally evoke their supreme experience of difference: desire and fear, exultation and a profound malaise. The plastic universe of Monory and the aesthetic meditations of Lyotard are in perfect symbiosis.
Notes: Originally published: The assassination of experience by painting-Monoroy = L'assassinat de l'experience par la peinture-Monoroy / Jean-François Lyotard, [art] by Jacques Monory. London : Black Dog Pub., 1998.

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