{"product_id":"lyotard-and-the-figural-in-performance-art-and-writing-9781472522443","title":"Lyotard and the 'Figural' in Performance, Art and Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kiff Bamford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis original study offers a timely reconsideration\u003cbr\u003eof the work of French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard in relation to art, \u003cbr\u003eperformance and writing. \u003cbr\u003eHow can we write about art, whilst\u003cbr\u003eacknowledging the transformation that inevitably accompanies \u003cbr\u003etranslations of both media and temporality?\u003cbr\u003eThat is the question that persistently dogs Lyotard's own writings on art, and\u003cbr\u003eto which this book responds through reference to artists from the\u003cbr\u003erecently-formed canon of performance art history, including the myths of\u003cbr\u003eseminal figures Marina Abramovic\u003cbr\u003eand Vito Acconci, and the controlled documentation of Gina Pane's actions.\u003cbr\u003eThrough the unstable, untranslatable element that Lyotard calls the \u003ci\u003efigural\u003c\/i\u003e, his thought is brought to bear\u003cbr\u003eon attempts to write a history of performance art and to question the paradoxically\u003cbr\u003eprescriptive demand for rules to govern 're-performance'. \u003cbr\u003e Kiff Bamford contextualises Lyotard's writings and\u003cbr\u003eapproach with reference to both his contemporaries, including Deleuze and\u003cbr\u003eKristeva, and the contemporary art about which they wrote, whilst arguing for\u003cbr\u003ethe pertinence of Lyotard's provocations today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45085002432663,"sku":"9781472522443","price":4592.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781472522443.webp?v=1767142784","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lyotard-and-the-figural-in-performance-art-and-writing-9781472522443","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}