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 ...
We knew that photography had become an art in its own right by fighting for its legitimacy on the very terrain occupied by the Fine Arts. Today, it is a key component on the contemporary arts scene and in the art market. We did not know how, from the nineteenth century onward, it had ...
The notion of the public has been considerably altered by the movement toward rationalization, and even democratization, that began in the second half of the twentieth century. In this regard, sociology has accustomed us to think in terms of the plural rather than of the singular, especially since Pierre Bourdieu and his team undertook ...
In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo had the revolutionary student Enjolras say that the nineteenth century was great but that the twentieth would be happy. At any rate, the nineteenth century did identify with the tremendous upsurge of progressivism that was making itself felt at the time in the name of a social ideal and ...
Children have always had their role to play in society. They have always had their place in the mind of adults who have projected onto them their own fantasies and world views. Childhood has not always been, for all that, an object of historical inquiry. Even though people have expressed an interest in children ...
Children have always had their role to play in society. They have always had their place in the mind of adults who have projected onto them their own fantasies and world views. Childhood has not always been, for all that, an object of historical inquiry. Even though people have expressed an interest in children ...
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 ...
