Foucault on the Arts and Letters - Perspectives for the 21st Century

A collection of new essays addressing Foucault's thought and its impact on thinking about the visual arts, literature and aesthetic discourse in the 21st century.

List of contents

Introduction: Perspectives on Foucault and the Arts and Letters, Catherine M. Soussloff / Part I: Visual Articulations / 1. Unreason and the Ambiguities of Silence, Dana Arnold / 2. The Photogenic Invention of Thought-Emotion:: Duane Michals and Michel Foucault, Anton Lee / 3. Documents, Monuments and Photographs: Jean-Luc Moulene, Sophie Berrebi / Part II: Bodily Experience in Dance and Music / 4. Body Techniques and Techniques of the Self: On Some Uses of Foucault's Concepts in the Choreographic Field, Frédéric Pouillaude / 5. Discipline and Pianist: Foucault and the Genealogy of the Etude, Brandon Konoval / Part III: Heroic and Tragic Subjectivities / 6. Foucault's Baudelaire, Sima Godfrey / 7. Foucault's Beckett, Marisa C. Sanchez / 8. The Role of Parresia in King Lear, Arianna Sforzini / Part IV: Aesthetics Transformed / 9. Deleuze on Foucault: The Recourse to Painting, Catherine M. Soussloff / 10. Critical Travels, Discursive Practices: Foucault in Tunis, Ilka Kressner / 11. Remaking the Self in Heterotopia, Andrew Ballantyne / 12. The Aesthetics of Bios, Fréderic Gros / Notes on Contributors / Index

About the author

Catherine M. Soussloff is Professor of Art History, Visual Art & Theory and a permanent Associate at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her many publications include The Handbook of Visual Culture (2012), The Subject in Art (2006), The Absolute Artist (1997), Jewish Identity in Modern Art History (1999) and Editing the Image (2006).

Product details

• Assisted by: Catherine M. Soussloff (Editor), Soussloff Catherine M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2016
• EAN: 9781783485741
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-574-1
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Global Aesthetic Research
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Theory of art, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Aesthetics;Continental Philosophy;Foucault;Philosophy of Art