Les entretiens d'artistes explores dialogic forms in creative process

Edited by Jérôme Dupeyrat and Mathieu Harel-Vivier, the volume 'Les entretiens d'artistes' published by Presses universitaires de Rennes examines the significance of interview formats in understanding artistic creation. Initiated by the laboratoire d'arts plastiques of Université Rennes 2, the book analyzes interviews with figures from visual arts, theater, music, and cinema. Contributions cover diverse discursive forms, from a casual conversation between Raymond Hains and Marc Dachy to Michel Vinaver's self-interrogation and Claude Debussy's adaptation of Paul Valéry. A study of Christian Boltanski's interviews shows how artists use fiction as a central practice. The filmed interview between Louise Bourgeois and Bernard Marcadé exemplifies dissident strategies also employed by Andy Warhol, Robert Morris, and Marcel Broodthaers, as detailed by Laurence Corbel. The book reframes the interview not as absolute truth but as a privileged, sometimes contentious relationship between interviewer and interviewee.