%0 Journal Article
%T Marcel Mari n¡¯s 'Woman Ajar'. A case of minor photography?
%A Mieke Bleyen
%J Image and Narrative : Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative
%D 2010
%I Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
%X (E): This paper examines Woman Ajar (1985), a late, largely forgotten photo book by Marcel Mari n, one of the key figures of Belgian post war surrealism. Representing the female body as fragmented and alienated by small objects, Mari n¡¯s photographs balance between the private (amateurish) and the public (professional) and explores the fragile border between art and pornography. In addition, there is a sense of belatedness in them, which makes them particularly hard to label. This paper proposes the concept of minor photography, borrowed from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari¡¯s concept of a minor literature, as a valuable tool to approach Marcel Mari n¡¯s work, which risks slipping through art history¡¯s net.  (F): Cet article examine Woman Ajar (1985), un livre de photographie tardif et largement oubli¨¦ de Marcel Mari n, l¡¯une des figures cl¨¦s du surr¨¦alisme belge d¡¯apr¨¨s-guerre. Repr¨¦sentant le corps f¨¦minin comme fragment¨¦ et ali¨¦n¨¦ par de petits objets, les photographies de Mari n balancent entre les sph¨¨res priv¨¦e (amateur) et publique (professionnelle) et explorent la fronti¨¨re fragile entre l¡¯art et la pornographie. En outre, il y a en elles un sens de la tardivet¨¦, qui les rend particuli¨¨rement difficiles ¨¤ ¨¦tiqueter. Cet article propose le concept de photographie mineure, emprunt¨¦ au concept de litt¨¦rature mineure avanc¨¦ par Gilles Deleuze et F¨¦lix Guattari, comme un outil pr¨¦cieux permettant d¡¯approcher l¡¯ uvre de Marcel Mari n, qui court le risque de glisser au travers du filet de l¡¯histoire de l¡¯art.
%K Marcel Mari n
%K surrealism in Belgium
%K deskilling
%K anachronism
%K minor photography
%U http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/106