PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH

Translated from Italian to French by Marie-Ange Maire-Vigueur

JRP Editions, Lectures Maison Rouge, 2013

This publication of Autoportrait, translated into French for the first time, is accompanied by a foreword, and a critical and biographical structure by art historian Giovanni Zapperi, showing the singularity of Carla Lonzi's project. Made up of a series of recorded interviews, subsequently transcribed and recomposed to give birth to a particular textual montage, Autoportrait is an experimental attempt to reinvent art criticism thanks to a fragmentary discourse and an iconography in which reproductions of works mix with intimate images. An invaluable document on Italian art in the 1960s, Autoportrait is a polyphonic book, “a kind of maieutic banquet” to which Carla Lonzi invites us in order to rethink the production of discourse on art and artists.