Being Affected

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Book Review| July 01 2013 Being Affected Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists, vols. 1–6, by Lyotard, Jean-François, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2009–13, $388.00/€297.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978905867881x Keith Crome Keith Crome Keith Crome is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Lyotard and Greek Thought: Sophistry (2004) and coeditor of The Lyotard Reader and Guide (2006). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 227–232. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2146185 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Keith Crome; Being Affected. Cultural Politics 1 July 2013; 9 (2): 227–232. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2146185 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsCultural Politics Search Advanced Search In 2009 Leuven University Press published Jean-François Lyotard's study of the artist Christiaan Karel Appel, Karel Appel: Un geste de couleur/Karel Appel: A Gesture of Colour. It was the first volume of what was initially planned to be a five-volume bilingual collection of Lyotard's Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists. The collection has now grown to six volumes, including a two-part fourth volume bringing together Lyotard's shorter, miscellaneous writings on aesthetics and the theory of art and on contemporary artists (Textes dispersés I: Esthétique et théorie de l'art/Miscellaneous Texts I: Aesthetics and Theory of Art and Textes dispersés II: Artistes contemporains/Miscellaneous Texts II: Contemporary Artists). In addition to the volumes mentioned above, a further three have been published: Sam Francis, Leçon de ténèbres: “Like the Paintings of a Blind Man”/Sam Francis, Lesson of Darkness: “Like the Paintings of a Blind... © 2013 Duke University Press2013 You do not currently have access to this content.