Sam Francis, leçon de ténèbres
Subtitle: "like the paintings of a blind man"
By: Jean-François Lyotard ; postface de Geoffrey Bennington ; sous la direction de Herman Parret ; traduction, Geoffrey Bennington = Sam Francis, lesson of darkness : "like the paintings of a blind man" / Jean-François Lyotard ; with an epilogue by Geoffrey Bennington ; edited by Herman Parret ; translated by Geoffrey Bennington
Contributors: Parret, Herman
Series: Ecrits sur l'art contemporain et les artistes = Writings on contemporary art and artists / Jean-François Lyotard -- v. 2
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: fre; eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9789058677815
Subjects: Color in art; Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Sam Francis, lesson of darkness
Work titles: Sam Francis, leçon de ténèbres
Description: “Sam Francis. Lesson of Darkness is the second of a series of six volumes, bringing together the most important writings of Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) on contemporary art and artists. This second volume introduces forty-three poetical reflections and comments on the work of the well-known Californian painter Sam Francis (1923-1994). This edition reprints the English text published in 1993, which is no longer available, face to face with the previously unpublished French original. It also reproduces in full colour all forty-three paintings commented upon by Lyotard. In Lyotard's opinion ‘the work [by Sam Francis] pays homage to the visible marvel and bears witness to the visual enigma'. Lyotard discovers in these poetic reflections the subtle variety of meanings in the use of colour in Sam Francis's paintings.”--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

French and English.