Painting as drift:Roland Barthes’ paintings and the pleasure of the margin

Harland, Elizabeth Jane (2015) Painting as drift:Roland Barthes’ paintings and the pleasure of the margin. In: Roland Barthes at 100, 2015-03-302015-03-31, Cardiff University.

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Abstract

The pleasure of a work (and its process of production), that operates aslant, in the margins, or ‘offstage’ is entirely evident in Roland Barthes’ many drawings and paintings, made in the 1970s alongside his writing practice. This paper responds to these visual works in relation to Barthes’ writings and explores what they suggest about the role of writer/reader, or painter/spectator as part of his challenging position to the view that the writer is active behind the text while the reader remains passive before it. The pleasure of the text, for Barthes, takes the form of drift and this surfaces in a number of his writings, as a means of remaining mobile, detached, capable of ‘contemplative duration’. The paper considers Barthes’ paintings and drawings in these terms, and explores their qualities of graphism, colour and spatial construction with reference to works by other thinkers on these subject, in particular Hubert Damisch’s Theory of /Cloud/.

Item Type:
Contribution to Conference (Paper)
Journal or Publication Title:
Roland Barthes at 100
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/aacsb/contributionstopractice
Subjects:
?? BARTHES, PAINTING, GRAPHISMCONTRIBUTIONS TO PRACTICE ??
ID Code:
83160
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Deposited On:
25 Nov 2016 09:46
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No
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Published
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