Description
Book Synopsis The idea of the ‘project’ crosses generic, disciplinary and cultural frontiers. At a time when writers and artists are increasingly describing their practices as ‘projects’, remarkably little critical attention has been paid to the actual idea of the ‘project’. This collection of essays responds to an urgent need by suggesting a framework for evaluating the notion of the project in the light of various modernist and postmodernist cultural practices, drawn mainly but not exclusively from the French-speaking domain. The overview offered by this volume promises to makes an original and thought-provoking contribution to contemporary literary, artistic and cultural criticism.
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Introduction: Tracking the Art of the Project: History, Theory, Practice
Johnnie Gratton and Michael Sheringham
Chapter 1. Man Ray’s Endgame and Other Modernist Gambits
Wendy Grossman
Chapter 2. Projected Journeys: Exploring the Limits of Travel
Charles Forsdick
Chapter 3. What does Reality Television Threaten?
Ingrid Wassenaar
Chapter 4. Programming and Play: Life Drive and Death Drive in the Work of Georges Perec, Roman Opalka and Jean-Benoît Puech
Dominique Rabaté
Chapter 5. Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse: Salvage and the Art of Forgetting
Emma Wilson
Chapter 6. Games with the Gaze: Sophie Calle’s Postmodern Phototextuality
Kate Ince
Chapter 7. On the Subject of the Project
Johnnie Gratton
Chapter 8. The Art of the Grand projet: Malraux’s Imaginary Museum and its Contemporary Legacy
Douglas Smith
Chapter 9. Experimenting with Identity: People, Place and Urban Change in Contemporary French Photography
Edward Welch
Chapter 10. Programmes and Projects in the Contemporary Literary Field
Dominique Viart
Chapter 11. The Project and the Everyday: François Bon’s Experiments in Attention
Michael Sheringham
Chapter 12. Michel Foucault: Life as a Work of Art
Patrick Ffrench
Notes on Contributors
Index
