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Sophie Aymes-stokes
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Expiation et filiation dans Death of a Hero de Richard Aldington (1929)
2017
Textes réunis et présentés par Sylvie Crinquand; National audience; Le roman de Richard Aldington reflète le scandale que fut la Première Guerre mondiale en puisant aux sources classiques de l'imaginaire européen et révèle l'ambivalence du mythe de la modernité en suggérant que la crise de la filiation créée par la Grande Guerre est également inhérente au Modernisme.
La bille et l'encrier : écriture et auto-illustration chez Mervyn Peake
2005
International audience; Cette analyse génétique des illustrations de Peake repose sur l'examen des manuscrits de Titus Groan et Gormenghast et permet de remonter à la source d'un ambitieux projet d'auto-illustration avorté. Cet avant-texte révèle une tension entre un texte proliférant et l'image graphique qui le génère et l'endigue.
Genesis de Paul Nash : exploration de l'imaginaire par la gravure dans le livre illustré moderniste
2011
International audience
Robinsonner dans l’Angleterre contemporaine : le paysage chez Patrick Keiller
2014
National audience
So the Horizon Line Vanishes': Landscape and Abstraction in England from the 1930s to the 1950s
2010
This paper explores the tension between abstraction and figuration in English landscape painting from the 1930s to the 1950s, a transitional period marked by opposition between these two semiotic systems. The tension between tradition and new departure runs through the paintings and texts by John Piper and Peter Lanyon.
Illustration, wood-engraving and the textual fabric
2012
International audience
'Across the Lens of the Eye': Interaction between Word and Image in Mervyn Peake's Work
2010
This article examines intermediality in the work of Mervyn Peake. It draws on recent scholarship based on phenomenology and mediology, and takes as its starting point the physical process of production within the setting of 19th and 20th century graphic culture.
“Linearity, an English Trait?”
2009
This article looks at how the « English line” became one of the defining features of Englishness from the 1920s to the 1950s. It is based on texts by Michael Ayrton, Robin Ironside, John Piper and Nikolaus Pevsner that were published during or just after the Second World War, and that contributed to a contemporary critical reassessment of English art.
The 1946 Production of The Fairy Queen in Covent Garden: 'A Triumph of British Music and Stagecraft'?
2006
This article examines the sets designed by John Piper for eight of Benjamin Britten's operas in the context of England's artistic and political post-war reconstruction. Piper created backdrops that found their logical conclusion in his stained-glass windows. They provide a sense of continuity whilst reflecting fundamental contradictions.