The most important writings of Lyotard on contemporary art in English for the first timeSeven writings assembled in the context of the philosophy of art that Jean-François Lyotard developed in the nineteen-eighties, at the time of the Differend (1983) and of the 'Kantian turn' leading to the Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime (1992), are here published for the first time in English translation. The texts focus on three artists with widely divergent aesthetic orientations: the colourist-d...

Karel Appel. A Gesture of Colour is the first of a series of five volumes, bringing together the most important writings of Jean-François Lyotard (1924 - 1998) on contemporary art and artists. The book he devoted to the art of Karel Appel (1921 - 2006) is doubtlessly one of the most complete and inspired texts of all the writings included in the series. Neither the original French manuscript nor the English translation have ever been published, and their presentation face to face should cons...

TWO-VOLUME SET!

Buy volume 4, I & 4, II together for only €99,90 instead of € 119!

Volume 4, I - Textes dispersés I: esthétiques et théorie de l'art/Miscellaneaous Texts I: Aetshetics and Theory of Art >>>

This fourth volume in the series devoted to Jean-François Lyotard's writings on contemporary art and artists presents nine essays on general aesthetics and the theory of art.

Volume 4, II - Textes dispersés II: artistes contemporains/Miscellaneaous Texts II: Contemporary Artists >>>

This second book of the fourth volume in the series brings together thirty-nine essays by Lyotard that deal with twenty-seven influential and innovative contemporary artis...

Ramayana

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De Ramayana is een heilig geschrift met een diepgaande symboliek. Zij geeft heel naukeuring en gedetailleerd elke stap aan in het proces van innnerlijke groei. Hoewel de zwaartekracht pas in de 18de eeuw door de mens werd ontdekt, is zij toch van alle tijden. Omdat we op dit moment getuige zijn van een indrukwekkende transformatie in de wereld ( economisch, politiek , klimatologisch, spiritueel etc. ) en ieder van ons daarvan onderdeel uitmaakt, ...

Sam Francis. Lesson of Darkness is the second of a series of five volumes, bringing together the most important writings of Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) on contemporary art and artists. This second volume introduces forty-three poetical reflections and comments on the work of the well-known Californian painter Sam Francis (1923-1994). This edition reprints the English text published in 1993, which is no longer available, face to face with the previously unpublished French original. It a...