Michael Newell Witte is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of San Diego. His research explores neo-avant-garde art and theory, dissident and ethnographic surrealism, and global contemporary art and film. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (2023) and co-author of the exhibition catalogue Todo está perdido: Juan José Gurrola (2023).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Klossowski?Part I. TABLEAUX VIVANTS: KLOSSOWSKI WITH LYOTARD1. Acinema and the Tableau Vivant 2. Negation and Mise-en-scènePart II. EXCESSIVE CINEMA: PASOLINI AND KLOSSOWSKI’S SADEAN AESTHETICS3. The Free Indirect Subjective4. Homme Entier / Integral AtheismPart III. A SACRIFICIAL ECONOMY OF THE IMAGE: KLOSSOWSKI AND GURROLA5. The Anti-Kinetic Film6. A Fraudulent Exchange7. Klossowski’s SystemPart IV. CINEMAS OF CRUELTY / THE GULLIVERIAN POINT-OF-VIEW8. Powers of the False and the Sovereign Artist9. Tableaux Vivants: Balthus and Pierre Klossowski10. Epilogue: The Gulliverian Point-of-ViewBibliography Index

Michael Newell Witte is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of San Diego. His research explores neo-avant-garde art and theory, dissident and ethnographic surrealism, and global contemporary art and film. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (2023) and co-author of the exhibition catalogue Todo está perdido: Juan José Gurrola (2023).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Klossowski?Part I. TABLEAUX VIVANTS: KLOSSOWSKI WITH LYOTARD1. Acinema and the Tableau Vivant 2. Negation and Mise-en-scènePart II. EXCESSIVE CINEMA: PASOLINI AND KLOSSOWSKI’S SADEAN AESTHETICS3. The Free Indirect Subjective4. Homme Entier / Integral AtheismPart III. A SACRIFICIAL ECONOMY OF THE IMAGE: KLOSSOWSKI AND GURROLA5. The Anti-Kinetic Film6. A Fraudulent Exchange7. Klossowski’s SystemPart IV. CINEMAS OF CRUELTY / THE GULLIVERIAN POINT-OF-VIEW8. Powers of the False and the Sovereign Artist9. Tableaux Vivants: Balthus and Pierre Klossowski10. Epilogue: The Gulliverian Point-of-ViewBibliography Index

Michael Newell Witte is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of San Diego. His research explores neo-avant-garde art and theory, dissident and ethnographic surrealism, and global contemporary art and film. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (2023) and co-author of the exhibition catalogue Todo está perdido: Juan José Gurrola (2023).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Klossowski?Part I. TABLEAUX VIVANTS: KLOSSOWSKI WITH LYOTARD1. Acinema and the Tableau Vivant 2. Negation and Mise-en-scènePart II. EXCESSIVE CINEMA: PASOLINI AND KLOSSOWSKI’S SADEAN AESTHETICS3. The Free Indirect Subjective4. Homme Entier / Integral AtheismPart III. A SACRIFICIAL ECONOMY OF THE IMAGE: KLOSSOWSKI AND GURROLA5. The Anti-Kinetic Film6. A Fraudulent Exchange7. Klossowski’s SystemPart IV. CINEMAS OF CRUELTY / THE GULLIVERIAN POINT-OF-VIEW8. Powers of the False and the Sovereign Artist9. Tableaux Vivants: Balthus and Pierre Klossowski10. Epilogue: The Gulliverian Point-of-ViewBibliography Index