Marie-José Mondzain

Marie-José Mondzain (born January 18, 1944 in Algiers , Algeria ) is a French art theorist and philosopher .

life and work

Mondzain is the daughter of the painter Simon Mondzain (1888–1979).

Mondzain studied at the École normal supérieure (ENS) in Sèvres ( Département Hauts-de-Seine ) and is research director of the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris . Her research focus is Byzantine culture and image theory (→ Byzantine art ), which she expands to include modern iconology .

reception

In her book, Can pictures kill? she dedicates herself to the subject of the violence of images and shows that it is not the content of the image, but the merging of the viewer with the image and the lack of distance that harbors the real danger.

Works (selection)

As an author

Essays

• Auctoritas and Exousia. On the economy of the audience . In: Emmanuel Alloa, Francesca Falk (eds.): BildÖkonomie. Households with Visibilities , Fink, Munich 2013, 253–271, ISBN 978-3-7705-5532-1 .

Monographs

• L'image peut-elle door? Bayard, Montrouge 2010, ISBN 978-2-227-48141-1 (reprint of the Paris 2002 edition).
  • Can pictures kill? diaphanes, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-935300-78-0 (translated by Ronald Voulliè).
• Image, icône, économie. Les Sources byzantines de l'imaginaires contemporain . Seuil, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-02-020867-9 .
  • Image, icon, economy . On the Byzantine roots of the contemporary imaginary, diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2011.
• L'Image naturelle . Le Nouveau commerce, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-85541-078-9 .
• Van Gogh ou la peinture comme tauromachie . Epure, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-907687-34-4 .
• Cueco dessins . Editions Cercle d'Art, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7022-0524-0 .
• Le Commerce des regards . Seuil, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-02-054170-X .
• Art Grandeur Nature . Editions Pyramyd, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-9522994-0-4 (+ 1 CD-Rom; together with Catherine de Smet, Michel Gaillot and Mario Perniola).
• L'arche et l'arc-en-ciel. Michel-Ange , La voûte de la chapelle Sixtine . Le Passage, Paris 2006, ISBN 978-2-8474-2078-4 .
• L'énigme du deuil . Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-13-055929-8 (together with Laurie Laufer).
• Homo spectator . Bayard, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-227-47728-5 .
• Qu'est-ce que tu vois? Gallimard, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-07-051092-4 .
• La mode. Petite conférence . Bayard, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-227-47911-1 .
• Images (à suivre) . Bayard, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-227-48300-2 .

As editor

• Transparence, opacité? 14 artistes contemporains chinois . Editions Cercle d'Art, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7022-0552-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Marie-José Mondzain in the catalog of the German National Library