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all except you

all except you

Milutis, Joe
Barthes, Roland

Paperback

Art Criticism & Theory

ISBN10: 1685711049
ISBN13: 9781685711047
Publisher: Punctum Books
Published: Apr 25 2023
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Roland Barthes's consideration of the drawings of New York artist Saul Steinberg - originally an artist book posthumously published in France in 1983 - is historically important as one of the last remaining books in Barthes's oeuvre to be translated into English.

all except you continues Barthes's inquiries into image-text relations, specifically the indiscernible horizon where writing meets drawing, one becoming the other. In his attempt to blur these registers, he produces less a critique than a translation, an attempt to merge author and artist, to see himself and his desire in the work of Steinberg, using the resources of structural linguistics and psychoanalysis. The impertinence of his critique mimics the deformations of Steinberg's drawings that are sassy, deformed by the look on high, stretched, excessively crunched. We become suspicious that Barthes is writing more into Steinberg than Steinberg holds, or even that Steinberg is an alibi for some other aim that is withheld.

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