Les doubles je(ux) de l'artiste: Collected Essays on Artistic Doubling and Parody

Edited by Natacha Pugnet, this collective volume gathers essays focusing on contemporary artistic practices that employ strategies of doubling, disguise, parody, and citation. The works analyzed often involve processes of de-individualization, autofiction, self-representation, and 'self-figurations in others,' aiming to renegotiate the modernist heritage by caricaturing or devaluing it. These 'parodic transcodings' constitute critical rereadings of history. Examples include the Beuysian New York ceremonial revisited by Oleg Kulik, Stéphane Bérard, Édouard Boyer, and Pilar Albarracín, contextualized by Fabien Faure. The book extends beyond visual arts to examine theatrical and cinematic practices by Christophe Huysman, Abbas Kiarostami, and Jean-Luc Godard, reflecting 'games with the self.' Pugnet notes that the approaches 'have the merit of raising questions about the figure of the artist, which simultaneously pertain to social reality, critical reception, and, today more than ever, autopoiesis.' The reader is invited to reflect on this 'conceptual figure' shaped by double games.