Sophie Basch is the autor of the powerful volume Rastaquarium, her recent book on the relationships between Art Nouveau and the Dreyfus Affair in Proust's work. In this summary of her talk given to the Arts & Sociétés seminar, she identifies for us the references to primitive Greece of this writer who, without being ...
# 29-1 | Ancient Rome | Alexandre Grandazzi
One must go back to Ancient Rome in order to study the burgeoning relationships between art and society at a time when images had already become the dominant means of expression. Valérie Naas offers us a valuable critical appreciation of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, a key source on ancient art. She thus reveals ...
# 29-2 | Ancient Rome | Valérie Naas
One must go back to Ancient Rome in order to study the burgeoning relationships between art and society at a time when images had already become the dominant means of expression. Valérie Naas offers us a valuable critical appreciation of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, a key source on ancient art. She thus reveals ...