Description: The first book by Hélène Cixous on painting and the contemporary arts. These 11 chapters bring together Hélène Cixous' writings about specific contemporary artists and artworks. Neither simply 'art criticism' nor critical essays, Cixous responds to these artworks as a poet, reading them as if they were poems.
Brief description: Hélène Cixous is Director of the Centre d'Études Féminines at Université Paris VIII, Emerita. one of the foremost intellectuals and creative writers in France and a major figure in the emergence and global spread of postmodern literary theory, late-20th-century Continental Thought and Women's Studies. She is the author of more than 40 novels, 14 plays and 15 volumes of theory and essays. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages, including Japanese, Korean, Hindi and Urdu.
Review Quotes: An important collection of essays on art by one of France's leading writers and literary figures.--Mairéad Hanrahan, Department of French, University College London