Hélène Cixous

Poetry in Painting

Writings on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics
Herausgeber: Segarra, Marta; Masó, Joana

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Produktbeschreibung

AUTHOR-APPROVED The Frontiers of Theory This series brings together internationally respected figures to comment on and re-describe the state of theory in the twenty-first century. Poetry in Painting: Writings on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics Hélène Cixous Edited by Marta Segarra & Joana Masó 'An important collection of essays on art by one of France's leading writers and literary figures.' Mairead Hanrahan, Department of French, University College London 'It will likely surprise and delight English readers to realize the extent of Cixous' engagement with contemporary arts, in particular painting, photography and film, one that has been frequent, sustained and especially intense over the last few years.' Peggy Kamuf, Department of French, University of Southern California The first book by Hélène Cixous on painting and the contemporary arts. This collection gathers most of Hélène Cixous' short texts devoted to contemporary artists, such as the painter Nancy Spero, the photographer Andres Serrano, the visual artists Roni Horn and Ernest Pignon-Ernest, 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. Nevertheless, Hélène Cixous' texts all deal with some of her privileged themes: exile, war, violence (against women) and exclusion, as well as love, memory, beauty and tenderness. Neither art criticism nor 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 Written between 1985 and 2010, most of these essays are unpublished in English, or published only in rare catalogues or art books. Hélène Cixous is Professor of Literature and Director of the Centre d'Études Féminines at Université Paris VIII, Emerita. She is the author of more than 70 volumes of fiction, theory, essays and drama. Marta Segarra is Professor of French literature and

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 167mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9780748647446
• ISBN-10: 0748647449
• Artikelnr.: 35211087

Autorenporträt

Hélène Cixous is Director of the Centre d'Études Féminines at Université Paris VIII, Emerita. one of the foremost intellectuals and creative writers in France and a major figure in the emergence and global spread of postmodern literary theory, late-20th-century Continental Thought and Women's Studies. She is the author of more than 40 novels, 14 plays and 15 volumes of theory and essays. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages, including Japanese, Korean, Hindi and Urdu. Marta Segarra is Professor of French literature and Gender Studies, and director of the Centre Women and Literature at the University of Barcelona (Spain). She specializes in French and Francophone contemporary literature, deconstruction and feminist theory, and postcolonial studies. Her most recent books are: Demenageries. Thinking (of) Animals after Derrida (co-ed. A.E. Berger, 2011), Nouvelles romancières francophones du Maghreb (2010), The Portable Cixous (ed., 2010), Traces du désir (2008). Joana Masó is Assistant Professor at the University of Barcelona and Associate Scholar at the Centre Women and Literature. She has translated into Spanish texts by Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Luc Nancy. She has edited the following books on or by Hélène Cixous: Cixous sous X (with M.-D. Garnier, 2010), Peinetures. Écrits sur l'art (with M. Segarra, Paris, 2010) and its Spanish translation, Poetas en pintura. Escritos sobre arte de Rembrandt a Nancy Spero (2010) and La llengua m'és l'únic refugi (ed., 2009).