Synopses & Reviews
Brought together for the first time, these writings by visual artist and writer Yve Lomax are united by a common thread: they place writing itself--the written image--into the repertoire of visual art. The book both proposes and demonstrates this development. It also has a twofold purpose and function: it can be read and enjoyed as performance, often resembling poetry, thick with ideas, images and metaphors. It is also an original contribution to theoretical writing on the visual, particularly relating to the image and difference, celebrating and referring to the work of Michel Serres, Gilles Deleuze, Luce Irigaray and others in pursuit of its own strategy of introducing the written image into the theoretical text.
Review
An unexpected informality of voice combined with a certain intellectualism makes these essays both touching and enlightening.
Design Issues About the Author
Yve Lomax teaches Fine Art at Central St. Martin's College and is currently the Research Fellow in Photography at the Royal College of Art.
Table of Contents
1981-1985 * Double-Edged Scenes * A Metaphorical Journey * More and No More Difference * Re-visions *
1985-1989 * Future Politics/The Line in the Middle * The World is a Fabulous Tale *
1991-1995 * Sometime(s) * "The World is indeed a Fabulous Tale" *
Serious Words * Act One: The Study * The Holograph and
les temps * Multiplicity, Sagittarian arrow, and * A fold, a wind and the event of ethics * Act Two: The Installations * Surprise * Cause * Move * Turn * Leap * Act Three: The Experience * A practice--A power--A correspondence--An affection--A distinction--An adequate action--A (great) question--A encounter--Crying out (loud)--Another fold--Common notions--To cup (it)--And--An art