Concentrationary Art: Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts
Griselda Pollock, "Concentrationary Art: Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts"
English | ISBN: 1785339702 | 2019 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1785339702 | 2019 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.
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