{"product_id":"pierre-klossowski-the-pantomime-of-spirits","title":"Pierre Klossowski","description":"This book examines the many facets of the work of Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001). Klossowski first established himself as a writer and was known and admired by peers such as Bataille, Blanchot, Gide, Foucault, Deleuze and Lacan. But in 1972 he gave up writing to devote himself to his ‘mutism’: painting made up of large coloured drawings. In time he became as famous a painter as he had been a writer and theorist. Klossowski now has two separate groups of commentators: those concerned with his writings and those with his painting, with little overlap between the two. \u003cbr\u003e Here, this separation is explicitly removed. Klossowski’s entire \u003ci\u003eœuvre\u003c\/i\u003e revolved around the concept of the gaze. Rarely has the gaze been so radically interpreted – as an active, mobile, evanescent object that breaks down the connections between representation and the visible. How is one to see the invisible divinity? This question plagued Klossowski, and he displaced it onto pornographic rituals. The \u003ci\u003epantomime of spirits\u003c\/i\u003e is the scene, fixed in silence, where bodies meet – a knotting of desiring body and dogmatic theology. A creator of \u003ci\u003esimulacra\u003c\/i\u003e, Klossowski attempted to exorcise the ‘obsessive constraint of the \u003ci\u003ephantasm\u003c\/i\u003e’ that subjugated him in all these scenes.\u003cbr\u003e Translated from the French by Adrian Price in collaboration with Pamela King.","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54191592800600,"sku":null,"price":73.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783034302098_bec3f42d-876d-4dcb-8c7e-cc5ff6d74c90.jpg?v=1777203935","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/pierre-klossowski-the-pantomime-of-spirits","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}