Traite de l’informe

Monstres, crachats et corps debordants a la Renaissance et au XXe siecle

by Susana Gallego Cuesta

Book cover: Traite de l’informe

Extent: 448 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Art & Art History, Literary Studies

Series: Perspectives comparatistes

Series volume number: 103, 3

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(November 2021)

ISBN: 9782406119227

Price: $55.00

Out of stock

Hardback (Published)

(November 2021)

ISBN: 9782406119234

Price: $104.00

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The formless has fascinated artists in the Renaissance (from Leonardo da Vinci to Pontorno, Rabelais, Teresa of Avila, and Montaigne) and in the twentieth century, when Georges Bataille enshrined the notion of the informe at the center of his aesthetic thought. This book tries to think through the stakes entailed by this fascination and its resurgence.

  • By (author) Susana Gallego Cuesta