Art in Theory
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Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas is an art theory anthology edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, first published in 1992.
Impressions
The Shoe of a dead woman
In the entry for aesthete at Georges Bataille's Critical Dictionary published in installments in the journal Documents one finds the following sentence:
- "When it comes down to it, these words have the power to disturb and to nauseate: after fifteen years, one finds the shoe of a dead woman at the bottom of a cupboard; one throws it in the rubbish bin" (translation by Art in Theory).
"One single text" by Bataille
Barthes in the From Work To Text on Georges Bataille:
- "How do you classify a writer like Georges Bataille? Novelist, poet, essayist, economist, philosopher, mystic? The answer is so difficult that the literary manuals generally prefer to forget about Bataille who, in fact, wrote texts, perhaps continuously 'one single text'."
This reminds me of Richard Simmillion, a recurring character in W. F. Hermans's novels and stories. Hermans is also an author who wrote one single text.
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