Le jeu des plaisirs

Indigo Bloome est mariée et mère de deux enfants. Après une carrière dans la finance, elle s'est installée en Australie. Ses romans sont devenus des best-sellers, notamment en France avec Le Jeu des Tentations (City 2013).

Résumé : Vito Acconci. American artist Vito Acconci is recognized for his daring and revolutionary contribution to the course of late twentieth century art. A key pioneer of performance and video art in the late 1960s, Acconci has continued to surprise his audience by working in new and unexpected media, blurring disciplines from sculpture to installation to architecture. All of his work involves an investigation into the boundary between the body and public space, often with an implied social message. Initially a poet, Acconci turned to visual arts in 1969, gaining the attention of art audiences with such early performances as his notorious Seedbed (1972), when the artist masturbated beneath a ramp covering the gallery floor, his fantasies about the viewers he could hear but not see amplified in the gallery above. The artist reached a turning point in 1974 when he decided no longer to place his own body within his artworks. He continued investigating his chosen social themes with sculptures and installations, such as Instant House (1980), in which the viewer can create a private space in the midst of a public exhibition. Since the mid 1980s Acconci's work has turned towards experimental design and architectural projects, among them his Storefront Renovation for the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York (1993). Acconci has been included in many seminal group exhibitions of postwar art history, among them 'Information' (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1970), and Documentas 5 and 7 (1972 and 1982). The work of Acconci Studio was also featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2001). Art critic Frazer Ward chronicles the key moments in Acconci's thirty-year career, selecting emblematic works which illustrate the different media in which the artist has worked. In the interview artist discusses with theorist Mark C Taylor his concern for the human body as a social, spatial and linguistic entity. In the Focus, architectural theorist Jennifer Bloomer analyzes one of the artist's recent architectural works, World in Your Bones (1998). For his Artist's Choice, the artist has selected Alain Robbe-Grillet's screenplay for Alain Resnais' film Last Year at Marienbad (1961). Noted also for his poetry and theoretical essays, the selection of Artist's Writings spans his early experimental poetry from the late 1960s to a cultural analysis of public art and architecture in the 1980s and 1990s.

La psychologue Alexandra Blake a découvert ses fantasmes les plus intimes dans les bras de son amant, Jeremy Quinn. Elle a ensuite repoussé ses limites à l'extrême lorsqu'elle a été enlevée. Ses ravisseurs voulaient l'utiliser pour explorer les mystères les plus sombres de la sexualité féminine... Maintenant qu'elle est libre, le monde s'ouvre à nouveau à elle. Alexandra sait qu'elle détient la clé des secrets que Quinn et ses ravisseurs ont cherché à s'approprier. Pour aller au bout de l'aventure, et alors qu'elle pensait avoir tout expérimenté, elle explore d'anciens rituels sensuels. Et Alexandra découvre qu'elle a encore beaucoup à apprendre sur ses désirs...

Ce livre bouleverse toutes les idées reçues que le genre humain se fait de lui-même. Il explore les forces qui gouvernent l?histoire, devenant aussi important que ?l?origine des espèces? de Darwin. Un livre fascinant, exceptionnel, unique, d?une culture encyclopédique sans égal, serti d?une logique implacable. Personne ne peut sortir intellectuellement indemne après cette lecture dramatique. Broché 15 x 21 - 450 pages