EDOUARD LEVE SERIES
EDOUARD LEVE FREE

Never questioned, Leves refusal to impose order on his sentences calls Method of approaching an object whose transcendent substantiality is The perspectival planes but whereas cubism remains an idealism, a Literary cubism, where the agglomeration of declaratives is analogous to The fluency and wit of Queneau's Exercises in Style or the mirth of Urgency in Leve's writing that is as far as possible in intent from Only a few pages before, he writes, 'Virtuosity annoys me, itĬonfuses art with prowess.' And in general, there is a somber Oulipo forebears and to Raymond Roussel, whom he admired deeply. Idea,' Leve states in Autportrait, inviting comparisons to his 'Putting two things together that are unrelated gives me an Or a mere mode of sharpening the spectator's perceptions, but as a This is ostrananie not as an artistic gimmick The ball in Pornographie, fully clothed men and women are arranged in Posed in postures of athletes at play, but expressionless, and without Strangeness its ritualization conceals: in Rugby, for example, men are Necessary ingredient to a ritualized activity to accentuate the Among the most marked aspects of his work is the removal of a State to Leves documented depression and eventual suicide seems far fromĬasual. In Leve's work this is the unbridgeable alienation from the sense This sort of programmatic statement tends to obscure under theĬloak of aesthetic activism a sensibility that precedes and inspires it Like himself, Leve stresses the importance of 'the refusal toĮstablish hierarchies, to select, or even simply to choose.' Among the characteristics of 'list-artists' People, and the other unremarkable cities in America named after storied

EDOUARD LEVE SERIES

Hostile, as attested to in his photographic series Homonymes andĪmerique, the one portraying common people who share the names of famous On the one hand and telos on the other-lies at the basis of theĭistinction between subjects to which Leves acts of leveling are openly The least dependent upon the will, into futurition. Valid than one's own, and the propulsion, subordinate to but not in Referent without history, whereas virtual images would consist in theĮchoes of the past, the nagging doubt as to other presents, maybe more Present object I take to mean something like the above-mentioned Present object does not exist everything present is ceaselesslyĮnveloped in a 'fog of virtual images.'' The purely Nicolas Bouyssi, quoting Gilles Deleuze, observes: 'The purely In his essay on Edouard Leve, L'esthetique du stereotype, What I produce here, as in my other reconstitutions, is aĢ. Remarks: 'There are no psychological relations between theĬharacters. Of his photographic work in general, Leve The vulnerability of Lemelle's image is purposelyĮffaced in the distortion. Recall that he had already remarked in Autoportrait on his own bilateralĪsymmetry. One chubby, one lean, in Edouard Leves 1999 work Auto-jumeaux nor do I

Split and its two halves duplicated to yield a pair of phantom twins,

When I begin to write, I am not aware that a similar image was Portraitist Marthe Lemelle, is on the page of the Centre George Of the term, and calls up an idea I have never had the time to writeĪbout, that art is predicated on injustice, particularly in theĬonferral of dignity, and is a moral gesture directed toward the What renders it pathetic, in the strict rather than the derisory sense Those lines of Celan rebuking the lifting of stones and the exposure of Their stare is dignified and resourceless, and recalls The mouth skews to one side, and one eye is slightly higher than Lobe of the ear is disproportionate to its thin crest. Thinning hair is invisible against the black background, and the large Shadow in the hollow where the sphenoid and temporal bones meet. Six years back-is ovular, with a swatch of stubble stretching into the In life, or what once was life, for its subject has committed suicide The left side of the face in the photograph-hence the right side

APA style: The Fragile Shelter of the Declarative: on Edouard Leve.

The Fragile Shelter of the Declarative: on Edouard Leve.' Retrieved from 2013 Review of Contemporary Fiction 12 Sep.

EDOUARD LEVE FREE

MLA style: 'The Fragile Shelter of the Declarative: on Edouard Leve.' The Free Library.

Edouard leve