A la dérive: Drifting In and Out of Form in French Literature and Visual Art from Bataille to Bergvall. / Robertson, Eric.
What Forms Can Do : The Work of Form in 20th- and 21st- Century French Literature and Thought. ed. / Patrick Crowley; Shirley Jordan. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020. p. 271-286.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
A la dérive: Drifting In and Out of Form in French Literature and Visual Art from Bataille to Bergvall. / Robertson, Eric.
What Forms Can Do : The Work of Form in 20th- and 21st- Century French Literature and Thought. ed. / Patrick Crowley; Shirley Jordan. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020. p. 271-286.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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T1 - A la dérive: Drifting In and Out of Form in French Literature and Visual Art from Bataille to Bergvall
AU - Robertson, Eric
PY - 2020/2/26
Y1 - 2020/2/26
N2 - This chapter explores the complex and fluid relationship between form and formlessness through a range of literary and visual works. Georges Bataille's definition of the formless (informe) in the dissident Surrealist journal Documents (1929) provides the starting point for a trajectory that encompasses the dissolution of language in Lettrism, the dystopian art of Tetsumi Kudo and the powerful intermedia work of contemporary poet Caroline Bergvall.
AB - This chapter explores the complex and fluid relationship between form and formlessness through a range of literary and visual works. Georges Bataille's definition of the formless (informe) in the dissident Surrealist journal Documents (1929) provides the starting point for a trajectory that encompasses the dissolution of language in Lettrism, the dystopian art of Tetsumi Kudo and the powerful intermedia work of contemporary poet Caroline Bergvall.
KW - French literature
KW - French visual arts
KW - French poetry
KW - Georges Bataille
KW - Roland Barthes
KW - Bernard Réquichot
KW - Tetsumi Kudo
KW - Caroline Bergvall
KW - Documents 1929-30
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 978-1-789-62065-8
SP - 271
EP - 286
BT - What Forms Can Do
A2 - Crowley, Patrick
A2 - Jordan, Shirley
PB - Liverpool University Press
CY - Liverpool
ER -