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An edition of The enigmatic body (1995)

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The Enigmatic Body: Essays on the Arts by Jean Louis Schefer presents for the first time in English a selection of essays from the work of one of the most important French theorists of today. The essays represent the whole of Schefer's career - from the 1960s, when he was influenced by structuralism, to his more lyrical and autobiographical work of the 1990s, which meditate on the role of the spectator in relation to art practice.

Schefer considers the very nature of art, film, and writing through his close examination of artists as diverse as Uccello, Poussin, and Cy Twombly and writers such as Paul Valery and Roland Barthes. These provocative essays all register the writer's direct confrontation with various media in a way that stands as a corrective to the formal traditions of interpretation and criticism.

Autobiographical, yet theoretically informed and historically detailed, Schefer's work offers some of the most original interpretations of art available today.

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English
Pages
186

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The Enigmatic Body: Essays on the Arts (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism)
August 1996, Cambridge University Press
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The enigmatic body: essays on the arts
1995, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-180) and index.

Published in
Cambridge, New York, NY, USA
Series
Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
700
Library of Congress
NX640 .S34 1995

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Pagination
xxii, 186 p. :
Number of pages
186

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1098974M
Internet Archive
enigmaticbodyess0000sche
ISBN 10
0521372046
LCCN
94023722
OCLC/WorldCat
31412180
Library Thing
3647580
Goodreads
6918139

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