Letter of Seminar
In his much-discussed major book, published just this year (Les Batailles de l’impôt. Consentement et résistances de 1789 à nos jours), Nicolas Delalande reconsiders the question of whether political democracy and universal suffrage must necessarily lead to State intervention in favor of a greater equality of conditions as he reexamines this still-current debate, which ...
Following in the wake of the Dada movement, the saying “Art is life and life is art” was a leitmotiv in the 1950s and 1960s. Wolf Vostell falls within the scope of this outlook with his Theater Is in the Street (1958), where he championed the active participation of the audience, which had hitherto ...
Frans Masereel was a Belgian artist whose engraving work has had a lasting influence on the genre. Such influence spread a bit everywhere and even as far away as China, where he had emulators as early as the 1930s, starting when his works were brought there clandestinely. Known for adding an acid stroke to ...
We know of Philip Nord’s impressive work on twentieth-century France, but less well do we know of his interest in art. Here, he takes two examples drawn from different eras–late nineteenth-century Impressionism and the post-1945 decentralization of French theater—in order to clarify the terms and conditions for “democratic art.” Such art, which broke with ...
Stéphane Van Damme, whom we admire for his works on the Age of Enlightenment, has reread for us the work of Tocqueville, a man who, in his love for individual freedom, mistrusted equality. Van Damme helps us to understand how, between the scientific revolutions of the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, positions on equality ...