Icon comes from the Greek word for religious images of all kinds, in all materials, and of every dimension. Objects of worship but also objets d’art, icons are linked to the Orthodox faith but also to the history of art. They are the tokens of a worldview that has inspired theologians as well as ...
# 23 | Money | Elisabeth Lebovici and Caroline Bourgeois
“Our way of life resembles a fair,” wrote the Stoic Epictetus. “The flocks and herds are passing along to be sold, and the greater part of the crowd to buy and sell. But there are some few who come only to look at the fair, to inquire how and why it is being held, ...
# 22 | Postwar | Serge Guilbaut
Contrary to what Barnett Newman declared, one never “starts from scratch,” even if it is true that “the old stuff was out” in the all-out crisis brought on by World War II and everything that preceded it. Two exhibitions have just offered fresh reexaminations of the postwar period. The most recent one took place ...
# 21 | Prehistories | Arnaud Hurel
Arnaud Hurel gained a name for himself with the recent publication of a book on the history of his field of study. His volume La France préhistorienne de 1789 à 1941 (Prehistorians’ France from 1789 to 1941) examines this field starting from that paradoxical revolutionary moment when the notion of a “collective heritage [patrimoine ...
# 20-2 | Genius | Pierre-Michel Menger
Jean Starobinski sees the eighteenth century as the stage upon which an unprecedented freedom movement lit up and exploded in a tragic flash. This was the moment when Diderot made of the genius a personal, secret, and indefinable kind of soul, in the absence of which nothing beautiful or very great could be accomplished. ...
# 20-1 | Genius | Bruno Moysan
Jean Starobinski sees the eighteenth century as the stage upon which an unprecedented freedom movement lit up and exploded in a tragic flash. This was the moment when Diderot made of the genius a personal, secret, and indefinable kind of soul, in the absence of which nothing beautiful or very great could be accomplished. ...
# 19-2 | Alternatives to the Art Market in New York | Georges Armaos
Brett Littman a travaillé dans le courant alternatif à New York downtown et retrace l’historique des formes d’art et d’expositions non-institutionnelles, des années 1960 à aujourd’hui. Il nous aide à mesurer la force d’actions qui n’ont pu prospérer que sur fond de contestation générale du capitalisme et de la politique engagée au Vietnam en ...
# 19-1 | Alternatives to the Art Market in New York | Brett Littman
Brett Littman, who has worked in the alternative art world of downtown New York, retraces here the history of noninstitutional art forms and art exhibitions from the 1960s to the present. He helps us to gauge the power of art actions that were able to thrive only against a background of protests against capitalism ...
# 18-2 | The Opacities of technology | Christian Walter
The singularity of technology lies perhaps in its an aura of objectivity and timelessness whereas reality demonstrates just the opposite. Like everything else, it complies with the dictates of history and obeys conventions. André Gunthert goes back over some of the arguments that might bid us to rejoin the land of history, the land ...
# 18-1 | The Opacities of Technology | André Gunthert
The singularity of technology lies perhaps in its an aura of objectivity and timelessness whereas reality demonstrates just the opposite. Like everything else, it complies with the dictates of history and obeys conventions. André Gunthert goes back over some of the arguments that might bid us to rejoin the land of history, the land ...
