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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.
List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Tracking the Art of the Project: History, Theory, PracticeJohnnie Gratton and Michael SheringhamChapter 1. Man Ray’s Endgame and Other Modernist GambitsWendy GrossmanChapter 2. Projected Journeys: Exploring the Limits of TravelCharles ForsdickChapter 3. What does Reality Television Threaten?Ingrid WassenaarChapter 4. Programming and Play: Life Drive and Death Drive in the Work of Georges Perec, Roman Opalka and Jean-Benoît PuechDominique RabatéChapter 5. Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse: Salvage and the Art of ForgettingEmma WilsonChapter 6. Games with the Gaze: Sophie Calle’s Postmodern PhototextualityKate InceChapter 7. On the Subject of the ProjectJohnnie GrattonChapter 8. The Art of the Grand projet: Malraux’s Imaginary Museum and its Contemporary LegacyDouglas SmithChapter 9. Experimenting with Identity: People, Place and Urban Change in Contemporary French PhotographyEdward WelchChapter 10. Programmes and Projects in the Contemporary Literary FieldDominique ViartChapter 11. The Project and the Everyday: François Bon’s Experiments in AttentionMichael SheringhamChapter 12. Michel Foucault: Life as a Work of ArtPatrick FfrenchNotes on ContributorsIndex
