- Hardcover: 200 pages
- Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (April 4 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0804742863
- ISBN-13: 978-0804742863
- Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 14.8 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
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“Each of these texts, in its own way, promotes and celebrates absolute theatricalization as a prevention against communication, theater being the most spectacular, the most metaphysical evacuating device, the most spectacular way of exposing the glory of emptiness, or producing what Genet calls the ‘vide solide.’” —Denis Hollier,New York University
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Fragments of the Artwork brings together Jean Genet’s critical writings and open letters on art and aesthetic issues. This collection testifies to Genet’s enormous influence on the modern theater, on the development of the novel, and on the representation of crime, sex, gender, and race. In lyrical essays and one candid interview, these works present an untutored, original, defiant Genet, displaying his provocative insights and acuities on a range of topics.
Genet wrestles with the athletic genius of Rembrandt, adores the intricate criminal resurrections of Dostoevsky, challenges our easy readings of Brecht, and, in what is one of the most exalting art historical essays ever written, provides us with his detailed personal account of the work and presence of Alberto Giacometti. Altogether these essays comprise a series of engrossing meditations on the central motives of theatricality and art.
Genet wrestles with the athletic genius of Rembrandt, adores the intricate criminal resurrections of Dostoevsky, challenges our easy readings of Brecht, and, in what is one of the most exalting art historical essays ever written, provides us with his detailed personal account of the work and presence of Alberto Giacometti. Altogether these essays comprise a series of engrossing meditations on the central motives of theatricality and art.
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