Christine Buci-Glucksmann began her career as a philosopher in the 1970s with studies of
Friedrich Engels and
Antonio Gramsci. She followed this research into
aesthetics, based primarily around the works of
Walter Benjamin. From this foundation she researched the aesthetics of the
perception of the
Baroque, which was published as "La Raison baroque" in 1984 and with La folie du voir in 1986. She cited
Gilles Deleuze and
Jean-François Lyotard as being most influential in guiding her research into Baroque aesthetics.
Later she investigated the aesthetics of the
virtual with two books: La folie du voir: Une esthétique du virtuel and Esthetique De L'ephemere. She has written numerous books and articles about
digital art (for example L'art à l'époque virtuel (Art in the Age of Virtuality)) and
new media art.[1] She has also written extensively on artists from
China, for in example in Les modernités chinoises.
Bibliography
Books
In translation:
Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity (translated by Patrick Camiller). London / Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage, 1994.
ISBN0-8039-8976-8
Gramsci and the State (translated by David Fernbach). London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1980.
ISBN0-85315-483-X
The Madness of Vision: On Baroque Aesthetics (translated by Dorothy Z. Baker). Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 2013.
ISBN9780821444375
In French:
L'art à l'époque virtuel, Arts 8, L'Harmattan, 2004