Apparitions, Daemons, and Emanations: Poetry and Painting in the Work of Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski,...

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Charles Freeland

Apparitions, Daemons, and Emanations

Poetry and Painting in the Work of Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Henri Michaux

Charles Freeland

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English

State University of New York Press
02 September 2024

Literature: history & criticism; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism

Series: SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory

A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux.

This book presents a new study of the visual arts and poetry in the work of three well-known French writers and artists from the mid-twentieth century-Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Henri Michaux. Each was fiercely independent, belonging to no school, academy, or political persuasion. What do they have in common? While the book's three central essays do not initially set out to establish comparisons between these writers, common ground emerges: a shared combat against culture, a shared non-representational artistic practice. Their writing, poetry, and painting offer not a portrayal of things or ideas but rather an emanation or apparition of the unknown and the infinite, one charged with deepening art's relation to life.

By: Charles Freeland
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 399g
ISBN: 9781438496641
ISBN 10: 1438496648
Series: SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
Pages: 297
Publication Date: 02 September 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Apparitions: Georges Bataille, Lascaux, and the ""Birth of Art"" 2. Diabolo scilicet: Pierre Klossowski: The Work of Art as Demonology 3. Emanations: The Painting and Poetry of Henri Michaux Postface: Poésie par le gouffre Bibliography Index"

Charles Freeland is Assistant Professor Emeritus, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Art History and Literature, Mahidol University International College, Thailand. He is the author of Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor: New Essays on Jacques Lacan's The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, also published by SUNY Press.

Reviews for Apparitions, Daemons, and Emanations: Poetry and Painting in the Work of Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Henri Michaux

""This is a stunning book: erudite and philosophically astute. Freeland takes us deep into the labyrinthine recesses of the 'unknown' explored by Bataille (prehistoric art), Klossowski (demonology), and Michaux (mescaline). Like each of these author's own work, Freeland's writing hovers at a limit where language strives to express what is not linguistic and thus inexpressible. An essential work, it deserves a wide audience."" — Daniel W. Smith, coeditor of Deleuze and Time