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<em>“The volume is a true labour of love, makes for fascinating reading, and at last offers us Cayrol in English translation…The articles take us on a fascinating journey in which Cayrol’s idea of the concentrationary and the figure of Lazarus are explored as theories with their own histories…These analyses across different artistic forms and historical periods demonstrate how fertile Cayrol’s ideas were.”</em> <strong>• Modern Language Review</strong></p>
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<em>“This is a politically urgent volume and an excellent resource for anyone studying the cultural or representational legacies of the concentration camp ‘as both event and form’, its (post)traumatic manifestations or memory in the contemporary world.”</em> <strong>• Textual Practice</strong></p>
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<em>“</em>Concentrationary Art <em>is invariably intellectually exhilarating to read, and is hard to put down. It puts forward a new and cogent aesthetic theory in its analysis not only of the wartime ‘concentrationary’, but also of the role of the survivor in a post-war world where traces of the same phenomena persist unseen in the everyday.”</em> <strong>• Sue Vice</strong>, University of Sheffield</p>
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<em>“This is an authoritative, clear, and insightful book. The contributions to this excellent volume offer a novel take on the concentrationary and provide a wider understanding of post-Holocaust art.”</em> <strong>• Kathryn Robson</strong>, Newcastle University</p>

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.
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The seminal work of Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. Concentrationary Art represents the first translation into English of Cayrol's two essays on concentrationary art, as well as the first book-length study of his theory.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Lazarus and the Modern World Max Silverman PART I: LAZARUS AMONG US Jean Cayrol Lazarean Dreams Lazarean Literature PART II: SITUATING CAYROL’S LAZAREAN Chapter 1. Lazarean Writing in Post-war France Patrick ffrench Chapter 2. The Perpetual Anxiety of Lazarus: The Gaze, the Tomb, and the Body in the Shroud Griselda Pollock PART III: READING WITH THE LAZAREAN Chapter 3. Concentrationary Art and the Reading of Everyday Life: (In)human Spaces in Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) Max Silverman Chapter 4. Cinematic Work as Concentrationary Art in Laurent Cantet’s Ressources Humaines (1999) Matthew John Chapter 5. After Haunting: A Conceptualization of the Lazarean Image Benjamin Hannavy Cousen Chapter 6. Lazarean Sound: The Autonomy of the Auditory from Hanns Eisler (Nuit et Brouillard, 1955) to Susan Philipsz (Night and Fog, 2016) Griselda Pollock Concluding Remarks Griselda Pollock Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781785339707
Publisert
2019-04-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
P, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272

Biographical note

Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social & Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History at the University of Leeds. Her many publications include After-Affects/After-Images: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation in the Virtual Feminist Museum (2012) and Charlotte Salomon in the Theatre of Memory (2018). She co-edited Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (2012).