Christine Buci-Glucksmann is a French
philosopher
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and Professor Emeritus from
University of Paris VIII
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It is one of the th ...
specializing in the
aesthetics
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of the
Baroque
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and
Japan
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, and
computer art
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. Her best-known work in English is ''Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity''.
Background
Christine Buci-Glucksmann began her career as a philosopher in the 1970s with studies of
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels ( ,["Engels"](_blank)
'' Antonio Gramsci
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. She followed this research into
aesthetics
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, based primarily around the works of
Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist.
An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish mys ...
. From this foundation she researched the aesthetics of the
perception
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of the
Baroque
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, which was published as "La Raison baroque" in 1984 and with ''La folie du voir'' in 1986. She cited
Gilles Deleuze
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and
Jean-François Lyotard
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as being most influential in guiding her research into Baroque aesthetics.
Later she investigated the aesthetics of the
virtual with two books: ''La folie du voir: Une esthétique du virtuel'' and ''Esthetique De L'ephemere''. She has written numerous books and articles about
digital art
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Since the 1960s, various names ...
(for example ''L'art à l'époque virtuel'' (Art in the Age of Virtuality)) and
new media art
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.
Charlie Gere
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, ''Art, Time and Technology: Histories of the Disappearing Body'' (2005) Berg, p. 145 She has also written extensively on artists from
China
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, for in example in ''Les modernités chinoises''.
Bibliography
Books
In translation:
* ''Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity'' (translated by Patrick Camiller). London / Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage, 1994.
* ''Gramsci and the State'' (translated by David Fernbach). London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1980.
In French:
*''L'art à l'époque virtuel'', Arts 8, L'Harmattan, 2004
*''Esthetique de l'éphemère'', Galilée, 2003,
*''La folie du voir: Une esthétique du virtuel'', Galilée, 2002
*''Histoire Florale De La Peinture: Hommage à Steve Dawson'', Galilée, 2002,
*''L'esthétique du Temps au Japon: Du Zen au Rituel'', Galilée, 2000,
*''Peinture, Trois Regards'' (Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Eric De Chassey,
Catherine Perret), Ėditions du Regard, 2000,
*''Les Frontières Esthétiques de l'Art'', L'Harmattan, 1999,
*''L'Oeil Cartographique de L'art'', Galilée, 1996,
*''L'enjeu du Beau: Musique et Passion'', Galilée, 1992,
*''Tragique de l'Ombre:
Shakespeare
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et le Maniérisme'', Galilée, 1990,
*(with Fabrice Revault d'Allonnes) ''
Raoul Ruiz __NOTOC__
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Raoul may also refer to:
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* Raoul Bova, Italian actor
* Radulphus Brito (Raoul le Breton, died ...
'', Dis Voir, 1987,
*''Imaginaires de L'autre: Khatibi et la Mémoire Littéraire'', L'Harmattan, 1987,
*''La Folie du Voir: De L'esthétique Baroque'', Galilée, 1986,
*''La Raison Baroque: De
Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited fro ...
à Benjamin'', Galilée, 1984,
*''Ouverture d'une Discussion: Dix Interventions à La Rencontre des 400 Intellectuels à Vitry'', F. Maspero, 1978,
*''Gramsci et l'Ėtat: Pour Une Théorie Materialiste de la Philosophie'', Fayard, 1975,
Essays
* "Eurydice et les scènes de la peinture." Verso No. 8 (1997).
* "The Eurydices." Parallax Parallax No.10 (1999).
* "Images d'absence." Les Cahiers des Regards (1993).
* "Images of Absence in the Inner Space of Painting," in Inside the Visible. Ed. C. De Zegher. (MIT Press, 1996).
* "Inner Space of Painting," in
Bracha L. Ettinger
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: Halala—Autistwork. (The Israel Museum, 1995).
* "L'oeil nomade et critique," in L'oeil cartographique de l'art. (Galilée, 1996).
References
External links
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Living people
Academic staff of Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis
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French women philosophers
French art critics
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Postmodern theory
20th-century French philosophers
21st-century French philosophers
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21st-century French women writers
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