Lyotard and the 'Figural' in Performance, Art and Writing - (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy) by Kiff Bamford (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This original study offers a timely reconsideration<br/>of the work of French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard in relation to art, <br/>performance and writing. <br/>How can we write about art, whilst<br/>acknowledging the transformation that inevitably accompanies <br/>translations of both media and temporality?<br/>That is the question that persistently dogs Lyotard's own writings on art, and<br/>to which this book responds through reference to artists from the<br/>recently-formed canon of performance art history, including the myths of<br/>seminal figures Marina Abramovic<br/>and Vito Acconci, and the controlled documentation of Gina Pane's actions.<br/>Through the unstable, untranslatable element that Lyotard calls the <i>figural</i>, his thought is brought to bear<br/>on attempts to write a history of performance art and to question the paradoxically<br/>prescriptive demand for rules to govern 're-performance'. <br/> Kiff Bamford contextualises Lyotard's writings and<br/>approach with reference to both his contemporaries, including Deleuze and<br/>Kristeva, and the contemporary art about which they wrote, whilst arguing for<br/>the pertinence of Lyotard's provocations today.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Kiff Bamford is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art and Graphic Design at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.</p>
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