Christine Buci-Glucksmann is a French

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and Professor Emeritus from

University of Paris VIII Paris 8 University (), or usually the University of Vincennes in Saint-Denis or Paris 8, is a public university in the Paris Metropolitan Area, Greater Paris, France. Once part of the historic University of Paris, it is now an autonomous public ...

specializing in the

aesthetics Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and taste (sociology), taste, which in a broad sense incorporates the philosophy of art.Slater, B. H.Aesthetics ''Internet Encyclopedia of Ph ...

of the

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

and

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

, and

computer art Computer art is art in which computers play a role in the production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, video game, website, algorithm, performance or gallery installation. Many traditio ...

. 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"
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''.Antonio Gramsci Antonio Francesco Gramsci ( , ; ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosophy, Marxist philosopher, Linguistics, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, Political philosophy, political the ...

. She followed this research into

, 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, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western M ...

. From this foundation she researched the aesthetics of the

perception Perception () is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment. All perception involves signals that go through the nervous syste ...

of the

, which was published as "La Raison baroque" in 1984 and with ''La folie du voir'' in 1986. She cited

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...

and

Jean-François Lyotard Jean-François Lyotard (; ; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and p ...

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 Digital art, or the digital arts, is artistic work that uses Digital electronics, digital technology as part of the creative or presentational process. It can also refer to computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960 ...

(for example ''L'art à l'époque virtuel'' (Art in the Age of Virtuality)) and

new media art New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of new media, electronic media technologies. It comprises virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robo ...

. Charlie Gere, ''Art, Time and Technology: Histories of the Disappearing Body'' (2005) Berg, p. 145 She has also written extensively on artists from

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

, 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. * ''The Madness of Vision: On Baroque Aesthetics'' (translated by Dorothy Z. Baker). Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 2013. 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 William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...

et le Maniérisme'', Galilée, 1990, *(with Fabrice Revault d'Allonnes) '' Raoul Ruiz'', 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 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: Halala—Autistwork. (The Israel Museum, 1995). * "L'oeil nomade et critique," in L'oeil cartographique de l'art. (Galilée, 1996).

References

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