Mimésis publishes an anthology of texts by British artist and theorist Victor Burgin spanning over four decades (1982-2024), bringing together his scattered work on image theory for French readers. Burgin’s central thesis conceives the image simultaneously as both ideological and psychic object, drawing on Althusserian and Freudian frameworks alongside French Theory, psychoanalysis, and visual studies. His deconstructive practice interrogates how subjective experience of reality is conditioned by memory and fantasy through disruptive montages of text and image. The anthology represents Burgin’s dual career bridging conceptual art and critical theory, employing eclecticism influenced by Barthes, Kristeva, Benjamin, Lacan, Deleuze, Adorno, and Rancière. Previously underrecognized in France except for one earlier translation, this collection addresses the intersection of ideology critique and psychoanalytic interpretation central to poststructuralist visual culture.
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