Letter of Seminar
One must wait until the seventeenth century to see art become no longer just the object of isolated exchanges carried out in order to enlarge the coffers of churches and princes and to give itself out as a commodity to institutions capable of ensuring aboveboard transactions that would allow price comparison and therefore competition ...
À la fin du 18e siècle, Brummell invente en Angleterre la figure ambivalente du dandy bientôt liée à l'avènement de la société démocratique et d'un nouveau spectateur de plus en plus avide de sensations. Au début du 20e siècle, à l'ère des masses, Marcel Duchamp reconduit la figure d'une résistance sans héros, anti-soldat indifférent, ...
At the end of the eighteenth century in England, Beau Brummell invented the ambivalent figure of the dandy, who would soon become tied to the advent of democratic society and of a new kind of spectator ever more greedy for sensations. At the start of the twentieth century, in the era of the masses, ...
At the end of the eighteenth century in England, Beau Brummell invented the ambivalent figure of the dandy, who would soon become tied to the advent of democratic society and of a new kind of spectator ever more greedy for sensations. At the start of the twentieth century, in the era of the masses, ...
Au 19e siècle, l'art réclame son autonomie mais les artistes eux-mêmes ne viendront pas à bout des contradictions qui les lient intrinsèquement à la société. En 1824, Adolphe Thiers proclame, à propos du Salon, que « l'art doit être libre, et libre de la façon la plus illimitée ». En cela, il est en ...
Au 19e siècle, l'art réclame son autonomie mais les artistes eux-mêmes ne viendront pas à bout des contradictions qui les lient intrinsèquement à la société. En 1824, Adolphe Thiers proclame, à propos du Salon, que « l'art doit être libre, et libre de la façon la plus illimitée ». En cela, il est en ...
If one takes an interest in the function of art in society, one is bound to speak of the Saint-Simonians. And often one does so without knowing it. The English art historian Neil McWilliam deserves credit for having taken stock of the origins of a French line of thought that is far from dead ...
If one takes an interest in the function of art in society, one is bound to speak of the Saint-Simonians. And often one does so without knowing it. The English art historian Neil McWilliam deserves credit for having taken stock of the origins of a French line of thought that is far from dead ...