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Sophie Aymes
Recording Britain : John Piper et le patrimoine architectural anglais dans les années 1940
This article is about the artist John Piper's participation in one of the programmes for the preservation of national heritage that were organised during the Second World War. It focuses on Piper's paintings and texts – notably the articles that he contributed to the Architectural Review – in order to illustrate the aesthetic controversy between modernism and tradition, abstraction and naturalism, which underpins the ambivalence of reconstruction.
L’archive : horizons de la création contemporaine
… archival art is as much preproduction as it is postproduction: concerned less with absolute origins than with obscure traces (perhaps “anarchival impulse” is the more appropriate phrase), these artists are often drawn to unfulfilled beginnings or incomplete projects—in art and in history alike—that might offer points of departure again. (Foster 5) L’archive dans la création contemporaine est l’objet d’une fascination qui, à chaque nouvelle rencontre, suscite la glose de la critique, des lec...
Introduction
Ce nouveau numéro d’Interfaces propose une réflexion interdisciplinaire sur le format, également poursuivie dans le volume suivant (décembre 2021). En partant de la définition proposée par David Zerbib qui comprend le format comme « convention ou agencement de paramètres matériels, techniques et symboliques permettant de manière relativement stabilisée l’identification et l’évaluation des œuvres et autres artefacts dans un contexte culturel donné » (352), ces articles et écrits d’artistes ren...
Art and Science in Word and Image
Art and Science in Word and Image investigates the theme of ‘riddles of form’, exploring how discovery and innovation have functioned inter-dependently between art, literature and the sciences. Using the impact of evolutionary biologist D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form on Modernist practices as springboard into the theme, contributors consider engagements with mysteries of natural form in painting, photography, fiction, etc., as well as theories about cosmic forces, and other fields of knowledge and enquiry. Hence the collection also deals with topics including cultural inscriptions of gardens and landscapes, deconstructions of received history through word and image artworks and texts,…