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 ...
# 6 | Art for whom? | Vincent Huguet and David Cascaro
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 ...
# 5-1 | The Beautiful and the Useful | Rossella Froissart
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 ...
# 4-2 | L’enfant modèle | Camille Saint-Jacques
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 ...
# 4-1 | The Model Child | Emmanuel Pernoud
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 ...
# 3-3 | Dandies | Julie Ramos
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, ...
# 3-2 | Dandies | Françoise Coblence
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, ...
# 3-1 | Dandies | Giovanna Zapperi
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, ...
# 2-2 | Body Morality | Pierre Wat
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 ...
# 2-1 | Body Morality | Martial Guédron
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 ...