Picture Theory
Brossard, Nicole / Godard, Barbara
A novel first published in French in 1982, 'Picture Theory' demonstrates Nicole Brossard's fiction théorique and her preoccupation with the difficulty of writing and reading woman. The title (taken from Wittgenstein) implies her reference to the hologram as a new pictorial model for woman, like the hologram which is intended to be read from an infinite number of changing conditions, Brossard's text abstracts the image of the feminine so that i...