Concentrationary art : Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the everyday in post-war film, literature, music and the visual arts / edited by Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman.
Introduction: Lazarus and the modern world / Max Silverman -- Lazarean dreams ; Lazarean literature / Jean Cayrol -- Lazarean writing in post-war France / Patrick ffrench -- The perpetual anxiety of Lazarus : the gaze, the tomb and the body in the shroud / Griselda Pollock -- Concentrationary art and the reading of everyday life : (in)human spaces in Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles / Max Silverman -- Cinematic work as concentrationary art in Ressources humaines (Laurent -- Cantet, 1999) / Matthew John -- After haunting : a conceptualization of the Lazarean image / Benjamin Hannavy Cousen -- 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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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