Author : Griselda Pollock,Max Silverman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785339714
Concentrationary Art by Griselda Pollock,Max Silverman Pdf
Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of French poet, novelist and camp survivor Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His concept of a concentrationary art—the need for an urgent and constant aesthetic resistance to the continuing effects of the concentrationary universe—proved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and other writers and theorists across a number of disciplines. Concentrationary Art presents the first translation into English of Jean Cayrol’s key essays on the subject, as well as the first book-length study of how we might situate and elaborate his concept of a Lazarean aesthetic in cultural theory, literature, cinema, music and contemporary art.