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The Art of the Project

The Art of the Project

Johnnie Gratton | Michael Sheringham†

(2005)

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Abstract

The idea of the ‘project’ crosses generic, disciplinary and cultural frontiers. At a time when writers and artists are increasingly describing their practices as ‘projects’, remarkably little critical attention has been paid to the actual idea of the ‘project’. This collection of essays responds to an urgent need by suggesting a framework for evaluating the notion of the project in the light of various modernist and postmodernist cultural practices, drawn mainly but not exclusively from the French-speaking domain. The overview offered by this volume promises to makes an original and thought-provoking contribution to contemporary literary, artistic and cultural criticism.


Johnnie Gratton is the holder of the 1776 Chair of French at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of Expressivism: The Vicissitudes of a Theory in the Writing of Proust and Barthes (Legenda, 2000), and has written widely on modern French fiction and autobiography.


Michael Sheringham† was Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford. He worked extensively on Surrealism, modern fiction, poetry, and autobiography and related genres. His publications included French Autobiotraphy: Devices and Desires (OUP 1993) and Parisian Fields (ed, Raktion Books, 1996).

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
The Art of the Project iii
Copyright iv
Contents v
List of Illustrations vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1. Man Ray’s Endgame and Other Modernist Gambits 31
Chapter 2. Projected Journeys 51
Chapter 2. What does Reality Television Threaten? 66
Chapter 4. Programming and Play 81
Chapter 5. Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse 96
Chapter 6. Games with the Gaze 111
Chapter 7. On the Subject of the Project 123
Chapter 8. The Art of the Grand projet 140
Chapter 9. Experimenting with Identity 156
Chapter 10. Programmes and Projects in the Contemporary Literary Field 172
Chapter 11. The Project and the Everyday 188
Chapter 12. Michel Foucault 204
Notes on Contributors 219
Index 223