Christine Buci-Glucksmann
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Aesthetics
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...
of the Baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
and computer art
Computer art
Computer art is any art in which computers play a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, videogame, web site, algorithm, performance or gallery installation...
. Her best know work in English is "Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity".
Background
Christine Buci-Glucksmann began her work as a philosopher in the 1970s with political studies of Friedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research...
and Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian writer, politician, political philosopher, and linguist. He was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime...
. She followed this with research into aesthetics
Aesthetics
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...
, based primarily around a study of the work of Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish intellectual, who functioned variously as a literary critic, philosopher, sociologist, translator, radio broadcaster and essayist...
. This achievement was followed by her study into the aesthetics of the perception
Perception
Perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of the environment by organizing and interpreting sensory information. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs...
of the Baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
, which was published as "La Raison baroque" in 1984 and then again with "La folie du voir’’ in 1986. In this, her major accomplishment, she cites Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze , was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote influentially on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus , both co-written with Félix...
and Jean-François Lyotard
Jean-François Lyotard
Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition...
as being most salient to her concerns.
She followed this interval with an investigation into the aesthetics of the virtual
Virtual
The term virtual is a concept applied in many fields with somewhat differing connotations, and also, differing denotations.The term has been defined in philosophy as "that which is not real" but may display the salient qualities of the real....
with two books: "La folie du voir: Une esthétique du virtuel" and "Esthetique De L'ephemere". She he has written numerous books and articles about digital art
Digital art
Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process...
(for example "L’art à l’époque virtuel" (Art in the Age of Virtuality)) and new media art
New media art
New media art is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology...
. She has also written extensively on artists from China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, for in example in "Les modernités chinoises".
Reference bibliography
In translation:- Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity (translated by Patrick Camiller). London / Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage, 1994. ISBN 0803989768
- Gramsci and the State (translated by David Fernbach). London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1980. ISBN 085315483X
In French:
- L’art à l’époque virtuel, Arts 8, L’Harmattan, 2004
- La folie du voir: Une esthétique du virtuel, Galilée, 2002
- L'enjeu du Beau: Musique et Passion, Galilée, ISBN 2718604050
- Esthetique de l'éphemère, Galilée, ISBN 2718606223
- L'esthétique du Temps au Japon: Du Zen au Rituel, Galilée, ISBN 2718605553
- La Folie du Voir: De L'esthétique Baroque, Galilée, ISBN 2718603062
- Les Frontières Esthétiques de l'Art, L'Harmattan, ISBN 2738482627
- Gramsci et l'Ėtat: Pour Une Théorie Materialiste de la Philosophie, Fayard, ISBN 2213001510
- Histoire Florale De La Peinture: Hommage à Steve Dawson, Galilée, ISBN 2718605944
- L'Oeil Cartographique de L'art, Galilée, ISBN 2718604670
- Imaginaires de L'autre: Khatibi et la Mémoire Littéraire, L'Harmattan, ISBN 2858027838
- Ouverture d'une Discussion: Dix Interventions à La Rencontre des 400 Intellectuels à Vitry, F. Maspero, ISBN 2707110841
- Peinture, Trois Regards (Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Eric De Chassey, Catherine PerretCatherine PerretCatherine Perret is associate professor of modern and contemporary aesthetics and theory at Nanterre University . She obtained her Ph.D. in philosophy and is known for her work on Walter Benjamin, most notably by her book "Walter Benjamin ou la critique en effet". Dr. Perret was the director of the...
), Ėditions du Regard, ISBN 2841051226
- La Raison Baroque: De Baudelaire à Benjamin, Galilée, ISBN 2718602694
- Tragique de l'Ombre: Shakespeare et le Maniérisme, Galilée, ISBN 2718603526
Reference essays
- "Eurydice et les scènes de la peinture." Verso No. 8 (1997).
- "The Eurydices." Parallax Parallax No.10 (1999).
- "Images d'absence." Les Cahiers des Regards (1993).
- "Images of Absence in the Inner Space of Painting," in Inside the Visible. Ed. C. De Zegher. (MIT Press, 1996).
- "Inner Space of Painting," in Bracha L. EttingerBracha L. EttingerBracha L. Ettinger also known as Bracha Ettinger, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Hebrew: ברכה אטינגר, ברכה ליכטנברג-אטינגר, is an artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst. Bracha L. Ettinger is a Professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland...
: Halala -- Autistwork. (The Israel Museum, 1995). - "L'oeil nomade et critique," in L'oeil cartographique de l'art. (Galilée, 1996).