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Dans Les écritures de l'image par Jean-Philippe Toussaint Claire Olivier s’intéresse à la manière dont l’écrivain, cinéaste, photographe et plasticien Jean-Philippe Toussaint, expérimente la puiss...
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Dans Les écritures de l'image par Jean-Philippe Toussaint Claire Olivier s’intéresse à la manière dont l’écrivain, cinéaste, photographe et plasticien Jean-Philippe Toussaint, expérimente la puissance des images pour composer en ce début du XXIe siècle une œuvre singulière fondée sur des relations transesthétiques. Elle s’attache à montrer que les écritures toussaintiennes, quel que soit le médium choisi, sont visuelles. Elles donnent à voir, à penser, à rêver et composent un « essai-image ». Ce dernier constitue une forme toujours en devenir qui s’appuie sur un processus de « sémentation », néologisme qui désigne une véritable alchimie du signe où le sens est continuellement réactivé par des contextualisations différentes. Sur le mode de l’opera operta, cet « essai-image » toussaintien déploie ses séductions réflexives comme romanesques.
In Les écritures de l'image par Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Claire Olivier is concerned with the way the writer, filmmaker, photographer and plastic artist Jean-Philippe Toussaint experiments with the power of images to create, in the 21st century, a singular work based on transaesthetic relationships. She endeavours to demonstrate that toussaintian writings are visual, independently from the chosen medium. They allow to see, think, dream and compose an “image-essay”. The latter forms a shape always in the making, relying on a “sémentation” process, neologism designating a true sign alchemy where the meaning is constantly revived through different contextualisations. On the model of the opera operta, this toussaintian “image-essay” deploys its reflective seductions as novelistic.
In Les écritures de l'image par Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Claire Olivier is concerned with the way the writer, filmmaker, photographer and plastic artist Jean-Philippe Toussaint experiments with the power of images to create, in the 21st century, a singular work based on transaesthetic relationships. She endeavours to demonstrate that toussaintian writings are visual, independently from the chosen medium. They allow to see, think, dream and compose an “image-essay”. The latter forms a shape always in the making, relying on a “sémentation” process, neologism designating a true sign alchemy where the meaning is constantly revived through different contextualisations. On the model of the opera operta, this toussaintian “image-essay” deploys its reflective seductions as novelistic.
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Pages: 392
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Faux Titre
Publication Date:
30 April 2021
ISBN: 9789004459625
Format: Hardcover
One of the lights that reoccurs in Olivier’s book is that of fireflies, an image that Toussaint evokes in Football, referring in turn to Didi-Huberman’s Survivance des lucioles. Like the interplay of fireflies, Olivier’s book is fascinating, but difficult to summarize; if offers a field where blinking lights (texts, videos, images) signal back and forth, indicating presence, glowing strongly or faintly, and fading away, only to reappear in response to another word, image, thought, reverie.
- Alexander Hertich, Dalhousie French Studies, 2023.
- Alexander Hertich, Dalhousie French Studies, 2023.
Claire Olivier, agrégée de lettres, enseigne la littérature et les arts en classes préparatoires (histoire de l’art, cinéma et théâtre). Elle oriente ses recherches sur les relations transesthétiques et sur les écrivains contemporains.
Claire Olivier, agrégée in Humanities, teaches Literature and the Arts in preparatory classes (History of Art, Cinema and Theatre). Her research focuses on transaesthetic relationships and on contemporary writers.
Claire Olivier, agrégée in Humanities, teaches Literature and the Arts in preparatory classes (History of Art, Cinema and Theatre). Her research focuses on transaesthetic relationships and on contemporary writers.