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The Frontiers of Theory The Frontiers of Theory Poetry in Series Editor: Martin McQuillan, Kingston University This series brings together internationally respected figures to comment on and re-describe the state of theory in the twenty-first century. Painting P o Poetry in Painting: Writings on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics e Hélène Cixous t r Edited by Marta Segarra and Joana Masó y i Writings on ‘An important collection of essays on art by one of France’s leading writers and literary figures.’ n Mairead Hanrahan, Department of French, University College London P Contemporary Arts a ‘It will likely surprise and delight English readers to realize the extent of Cixous’ engagement with contemporary arts, in particular painting, photography and film, one that has been in and Aesthetics frequent, sustained and especially intense over the last few years.’ t Peggy Kamuf, Department of French, University of Southern California i n Hélène Cixous g The first book by Hélène Cixous on painting and the contemporary arts Edited by Marta Segarra and Joana Masó This collection gathers most of Hélène Cixous’ short texts devoted to contemporary artists, AW r such as the painter Nancy Spero, the photographer Andres Serrano, the visual artists Roni tr sit Horn and Ernest Pignon-Ernest, the fashion designer Sonia Rykiel and the choreographer ain Karine Saporta, among others. The artworks belong to different genres and media: ng photography, painting, installations, film, choreography and fashion design. Nevertheless, ds A o Hélène Cixous’ texts all deal with some of her privileged themes: exile, war, violence (against en women) and exclusion, as well as love, memory, beauty and tenderness. st C ho Neither art criticism nor critical essays, Hélène Cixous responds to these artworks as a poet, en reading them as if they were poems. Written between 1985 and 2010, most of these essays tt are unpublished in English, or published only in rare catalogues or art books. icsem p Hélène Cixous is Professor of Literature and Director of the Centre d’Études Féminines at o r Université Paris VIII, Emerita. She is the author of more than 70 volumes of fiction, theory, a r essays and drama. y Marta Segarra is Professor of French Literature and Gender Studies and Director of the H Centre for Women and Literature at the University of Barcelona. é l Joana Masó is Assistant Professor at the University of Barcelona and Associate Scholar at the è n Centre for Women and Literature. e C i x o u Jacket image: The Goddess Nut II, 1990 © Nancy Spero s ISBN 978–0–7486–4744–6 Jacket design: Michael Chatfield E d in b u r g h Approx Pantone colours: 453, spine 697 Text received 25 Jan. Wanted by end of next week - 1/2 Feb? Poetry in Painting CCIIXXOOUUSS PPOOEETTRRYY PPRRIINNTT..iinndddd ii 0022//0033//22001122 1100::1166 The Frontiers of Theory Series Editor: Martin McQuillan The Poetics of Singularity: The Counter-Culturalist Turn in Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and the Later Gadamer Timothy Clark Dream I Tell You Hélène Cixous Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human Barbara Herrnstein Smith Geneses, Genealogies, Genres and Genius Jacques Derrida Insister of Jacques Derrida Hélène Cixous About Time: Narrative Fiction and the Philosophy of Time Mark Currie Not Half No End: Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory of Jacques Derrida Geoffrey Bennington Death-Drive: Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art Robert Rowland Smith Of Jews and Animals Andrew Benjamin Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction’s Traces Derek Attridge To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida Peggy Kamuf Volleys of Humanity: Essays 1972–2009 Hélène Cixous Veering: A Theory of Literature Nicholas Royle The Post-Romantic Predicament Paul de Man, ed. Martin McQuillan Poetry in Painting: Writings on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics Hélène Cixous, ed. Marta Segarra and Joana Masó The Paul de Man Notebooks Paul de Man, ed. Martin McQuillan Visit the Frontiers of Theory website at www.euppublishing.com/series/tfot CCIIXXOOUUSS PPOOEETTRRYY PPRRIINNTT..iinndddd iiii 0022//0033//22001122 1100::1166 Poetry in Painting Writings on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics Hélène Cixous Edited by Marta Segarra and Joana Masó CCIIXXOOUUSS PPOOEETTRRYY PPRRIINNTT..iinndddd iiiiii 0022//0033//22001122 1100::1166 © Hélène Cixous, 2012 © The Editors, editorial matter and arrangement, 2012 Edinburgh University Press Ltd 22 George Square, Edinburgh www.euppublishing.com Typeset in 10.5/13 pt Sabon by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire, and printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 0 7486 4744 6 (hardback) ISBN 978 0 7486 4745 3 (webready PDF) ISBN 978 0 7486 4961 7 (epub) ISBN 978 0 7486 4960 0 (Amazon ebook) The right of Hélène Cixous to be identifi ed as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. CCIIXXOOUUSS PPOOEETTRRYY PPRRIINNTT..iinndddd iivv 0022//0033//22001122 1100::1166 Contents Acknowledgements vi Sources vii Illustrations ix Series Editor’s Preface x Hélène Cixous, in Art as in Dreams 1 Joana Masó and Marta Segarra 1. Paintings 7 2. Spero’s Dissidances 21 3. Ernest’s Imagic 31 4. See the Neverbeforeseen 37 5. Portraits of Portraits: The Very Day/Light of Roni Horn 75 6. K – A Notebook 79 7. Shit, No Present: Faecetious Serrano 85 8. Inheriting/Inventing with Jeffrey Gibson 109 9. Filming the Becoming Invisible 113 10. Sonia Rykiel in Translation 119 11. The Train Stop, or Anna’s Resurrections 124 Index 133 CCIIXXOOUUSS PPOOEETTRRYY PPRRIINNTT..iinndddd vv 0022//0033//22001122 1100::1166 Acknowledgements We deeply thank the following artists and galleries for their gift of reproduction rights: Maria Chevska, Jeffrey Gibson, Roni Horn, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Andres Serrano and Nancy Spero, as well as the Lelong, Hauser & Wirth and Yvon Lambert galleries. And above all, we thank Hélène Cixous for her delicate generosity. CCIIXXOOUUSS PPOOEETTRRYY PPRRIINNTT..iinndddd vvii 0022//0033//22001122 1100::1166 Sources ‘Hélène Cixous, in Art as in Dreams’ ‘Hélène Cixous, en art comme en rêve’, Joana Masó and Marta Segarra. Trans. Marianne Choquet, unpublished in English. (A different version under the same title was included in Hélène Cixous, Peinetures. Écrits sur l’art, Marta Segarra and Joana Masó (eds), Hermann, Paris, 2010.) 1. ‘Paintings’ ‘Peinetures’, in Hélène Cixous, Peinetures. Écrits sur l’art, Marta Segarra and Joana Masó (eds), Hermann, Paris, 2010. Trans. Laurent Milesi, unpublished in English. 2. ‘Spero’s Dissidances’ ‘Dissidanses de Spero’. Trans. Laurent Milesi, published in English in Nancy Spero (catalogue), MACBA-Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and MNCARS-Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Barcelona-Madrid, 2008. 3. ‘Ernest’s Imagic’ ‘Imagie d’Ernest’, in Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Face aux murs, Delpire, Paris, 2010. Trans. Beverley Bie Brahic, unpublished in English. 4. ‘See the Neverbeforeseen’ ‘Faire voir le jamaisvu’. Transl. Beverley Bie Brahic, published in English and in French in Roni Horn, Rings of Lispector (Agua viva), Hauser & Wirth–Steidl, London, 2004. 5. ‘Portraits of Portraits: The Very Day/Light of Roni Horn’ ‘Portraits de portraits. Le jour même de Roni Horn’. Trans. Eric Prenowitz, published in English in Roni Horn (catalogue), CAC Málaga, Málaga, 2008. CCIIXXOOUUSS PPOOEETTRRYY PPRRIINNTT..iinndddd vviiii 0022//0033//22001122 1100::1166 viii Poetry in Painting 6. ‘K – A Notebook’ ‘K – A Notebook’. Trans. Susan Sellers, published in English and in French in Maria Chevska, Vera’s Room (catalogue), Black Dog, London, 2005. 7. ‘Shit, No Present: Faecetious Serrano’ Untitled in French. Trans. Laurent Milesi, published in Andres Serrano, Shit, Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2008. 8. ‘Inheriting/Inventing with Jeffrey Gibson’ ‘Hériter/Inventer avec Jeffrey Gibson’. Trans. Ilaria Migliardi and Nicole Cee, published in English in a brochure of an exhibition of Jeffrey Gibson’s works, 2007. 9. ‘Filming the Becoming Invisible’ ‘Filmer le devenir invisible’: http://www.ruthbeckermann.com/texts/ lepontdepapier/txt.php?lang=fr, 2006. Trans. Beverley Bie Brahic, unpublished in English. 10. ‘Sonia Rykiel in Translation’ ‘Sonia Rykiel en traduction’, in Hélène Cixous, Madeleine Chapsal and Sonia Rykiel, Sonia Rykiel, Éditions Herscher, Paris, 1985. Trans. Beverley Bie Brahic, unpublished in English. 11. ‘The Train Stop, or Anna’s Resurrections’ ‘L’arrêt du train, ou résurrections d’Anna’, in Karine Saporta-Peter Greenaway, roman-photo, Hélène Cixous, Daniel Dobbels, Bérénice Reynaud, Armand Colin, Paris, 1990. Trans. Beverley Bie Brahic, unpublished in English. CCIIXXOOUUSS PPOOEETTRRYY PPRRIINNTT..iinndddd vviiiiii 0022//0033//22001122 1100::1166 Illustrations Colour Plates Plate 1 Nancy Spero, Goddess Nut II, 1990. Handprinting and collage on paper, 5 panels. 213.4 × 279.4 cm. © The Estate of Nancy Spero. Licensed by VEGAP, Barcelona, 2012. Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York. Plate 2 Ernest Pignon-Ernest, La mort de la vierge, 1990. © Galerie Lelong. Courtesy of the artist. Plate 3 Roni Horn, Agua Viva: The dense jungle . . ., 2004. Silkscreen on Saunders hot press W/C. Ed. 1/2, 129.5 × 129.5 cm. © Hauser & Wirth Galerie. Plate 4 Maria Chevska, Vera’s Room, 2002. © Maria Chevska. Courtesy of the artist. Plate 5 Andres Serrano, Simple Shit, 2008. © Courtesy Yvon Lambert. Plate 6 Jeffrey Gibson, Second Nature, 2006. Yellowish/green paint- ing with urethane extension, oil and urethane foam on wood panel, 96 × 72 inches. © Collection of The Eiteljorg Museum. Courtesy of the artist. Images in Chapter 4 (‘See the Neverbeforseen’) Figures 1 and 2 Roni Horn, Yes, I want . . . Figures 3 and 5 Roni Horn, Yes, I want . . . Figure 4 Roni Horn, Yes, I want . . . Figure 6 Roni Horn, Now is the domain . . . Images © Hauser & Wirth Galerie CCIIXXOOUUSS PPOOEETTRRYY PPRRIINNTT..iinndddd iixx 0022//0033//22001122 1100::1166

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The first book by Hélène Cixous on painting and the contemporary arts. This collection gathers most of Hélène Cixous' texts devoted to contemporary artists, such as the painter Nancy Spero, the photographer Andres Serrano, the visual artist Roni Horn, the fashion designer Sonia Rykiel and the ch
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