Alix Cleo Roubaud : a portrait in fragments
Giannecchini, Hélène, 1987-2024
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When Alix Cléo Roubaud died at the age of 31, she left behind a profound and deeply personal body of work exploring self-portraiture, life, illness, the body and death. Hélène Giannecchini was the curator tasked with sorting through some six hundred photographs, letters, and other written documents belonging to the artist ahead of a posthumous retrospective held at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in 2014. But she had never met Alix Cléo Roubaud and this absence is felt keenly through her writing as she treads the boundaries between biography and fiction, life and art. Hélène Giannecchini pieces together the fragments that remain of this fleeting but dazzling life, spotlighting the theoretical underpinnings of the photographer's ideas on the double, repetition and drawing out the influences of Wittgenstein and Gertrude Stein on her practice.
Main title:
Alix Cleo Roubaud : a portrait in fragments / Hélène Giannecchini ; translated by Thea Petrou.
Author:
Giannecchini, Hélène, 1987-, authorPetrau, Thea, translator
Imprint:
London : Sylph Editions, 2024.©2024
Collation:
189 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 2014.Includes bibliographical references.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781909631441 (pbk)9781909631441
Dewey class:
770.92770
Language:
EnglishFrench
Subject:
BRN:
574846
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 770 ROU | Available |