Conversations with Hantaï: Didi-Huberman, Damisch, Rouan, Nancy

This series of translations offer recent engagements with Simon Hantaï’s work in France for the first time to an English-speaking audience. They include a text by Hantaï himself as well as texts on, and letters to Hantaï by Georges Didi-Huberman, Hubert Damisch, François Rouan and Jean-Luc Nancy. Representative of the wide-ranging conversations, dialogues and exchanges Hantaï entertained with philosophers, art historians and other artists, the translations reveal the extent to which Hantaï’s method of folding can be understood in philosophical, historical and theoretical terms.