The Sexual Night PosterIn The Sexual Night, renowned French writer and critic Pascal Quignard meditates on a remarkable collection of illustrations of sexual imagery. He moves from the annals of global art to ancient and modern, from Bosch and Drer to Rembrandt and Tintoretto, from Caspar David Friedrich and Caravaggio to Bacon and Jean Rustin. The meditations are wonderfully woven together, presenting a reflection on the sexual image that psychoanalysis calls the primal
but also closer to philosophy—close enough
The book’s 70 striking photographs create an intimate portrait of the Catholic community in Goa rarely seen before—a portrait of people torn between their fidelity to a history of Portuguese faith and culture and their post-Independence Indian identity
the book traces the beginnings of tension between these urban folk-cultural forms and the new culture of the Bengali elite which was increasingly seeking to model itself on the British
Pages: 124
The first Apollo moon landing
He co-founded Chatterjee & Lal with his wife
through a book that is a testament to Barthes’s belief that a literary work should invite the full
And take one to new shores of experience
completed two months before Artaud’s death in 1948
Festival International Signes de Nuit
Offering a critique of contemporary architectural and institutional approaches to ‘place-making’
A collection that can be read as a single poem
