{"title":"Jean-François Lyotard","description":"Herman Parret is Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Language at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven.","products":[{"product_id":"miscellaneous-texts-volume-i-aesthetics-and-theory-of-art-hardcover","title":"Miscellaneous Texts, Volume I: Aesthetics and Theory of Art - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first volume of Jean-Francois Lyotard's \u003cem\u003eMiscellaneous Texts\u003c\/em\u003e on contemporary art and artists, \u003cem\u003eAesthetics and Theory of Art\u003c\/em\u003e, contains nine essays on general aesthetics and the theory of art. They are published in the original French along with the translations in English. Most of these texts, preserved in the Lyotard archives of the Bibliotheque Litteraire Jacques Doucet in Paris, are presented here for the first time. They cover the whole period of his production, from 1969 to 1997, and they make the development of his philosophy of art explicit. After the \"libidinal\" conception of art in his early writings, the \"Kantian twist\" of around 1980 places his view on art under the aegis of the sublime.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50944876970207,"sku":"9789058677914","price":125.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/T81zvLrcIl9789058677914.webp?v=1786046553"},{"product_id":"sam-francis-lecon-de-tenebres-sam-francis-lesson-of-darkness-hardcover","title":"Sam Francis, Lecon de Tenebres\/Sam Francis, Lesson Of Darkness - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second volume in the series Jean-François Lyotard--Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists introduces forty-two poetical reflections and comments on the work of the well-known Californian painter Sam Francis (1923-1994). This new edition reprints the English text, which is no longer available, with the previously unpublished French original on facing pages. In Lyotard's opinion Sam Francis's work \"pays homage to the visible marvel and bears witness to the visual enigma.\" Color evokes conflicting feelings in the artist: \"... color says to me: 'Come, I am your consolation, I cure your melancholy, love me, ' and it says to me: 'Go, I am your deception, traverse me, lose yourself and enough of absent truth.'\" Lyotard is the first to see through the subtle variety of meanings in Sam Francis's use of color. This edition also reproduces in full color all forty-two paintings discussed by Lyotard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50944886735071,"sku":"9789058677815","price":89.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ln5QCKpTYB9789058677815.webp?v=1786046561"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jean-francois-lyotard.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}