Resumen de Dubuffet plays hide-and-seek: lineage, reflexivity, and perception in "Coucou Bazar"
In the criticism devoted to Jean Dubuffet, his mixed-genre spectacle, or “tableau animé” (animated painting), Coucou Bazar, is frequently cited but only rarely discussed in any detail. The exploration of three related issues— Coucou Bazar’s debt to avant-garde theater, dance, and set design; its metapic-torial features and its generic reflexivity; its sustained exploration of percep- tion and of the potential of the artwork to effect something akin to a phenomenological reduction—addresses this relative critical dearth and dem- onstrates that this multimedia venture is in many respects the logical exten- sion of much of Dubuffet’s earlier work.
