Playing with Format (1)

International audience; Le volume 45 de la revue Interfaces propose une réflexion sur la double nature du format, comme contrainte et condition de la créativité. Il aborde le rôle du format dans la création, développant une réflexion sur ses usages en art, en poésie, dans le théâtre, dans le domaine du livre, des périodiques et de productions telles que les carnets d’artistes. Il met en exergue la dimension expérimentale des variations de format dans les processus de création artistique et les stratégies éditoriales ou de conservation, ainsi que les pratiques hybrides (texte / image) et les transferts intermédiaux.

“Promenade along the coast: Paul Nash and Dave McKean revisit Dymchurch”

This paper examines the specificity of the coastline as a natural, cultural and medial boundary and interface. It focuses on how the motif of the coastline is depicted and remediated in the works of English artists Paul Nash and Dave McKean: between 1919 and 1925, as he was coming to terms with the aftermath of the First World War, Nash created a series of pictures depicting Dymchurch on the coast of Kent in England; McKean’s 2016 commemorative graphic novel Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash is a biographical exploration of Nash’s youth, of his experience of the war and of his recovery in the immediate post-war period. The interplay between memories of the trenches and the landscape of the…

Le paysage médial et la facture de l’œuvre : Livre, impression, illustration

Interview in Will Self's radio programme "The Death of the Eccentric" on Radio 4 (Archive 4)https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006kt6

« Mervyn Peake : ‘Alice, Tenniel et moi’ »

Notice sur l'illustrateur anglais Mervyn Peake pour le catalogue SurréAlice (vol. 2, Illustr’alice) de l’exposition Illustr’Alice au Musée Tomi Ungerer en collaboration avec le Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg. Dir. Fabrice Flahutez, Barbara Forest et Thérèse Willer. Strasbourg : Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, 2022. 46-49.

From ‘Sedate' to ‘Rotten': the Role of Books in the Genesis of The Power and the Glory

This paper traces the references to books in Greene's Journey Without Maps, The Lawless Roads and The Power and the Glory in order to map out the writer's journey to the origins of writing – counter to the priest's itinerary in the latter novel.

Introduction

Le volume 45 de la revue Interfaces propose une réflexion sur la double nature du format, comme contrainte et condition de la créativité. Il aborde le rôle du format dans la création, développant une réflexion sur ses usages en art, en poésie, dans le théâtre, dans le domaine du livre, des périodiques et de productions telles que les carnets d’artistes. Il met en exergue la dimension expérimentale des variations de format dans les processus de création artistique et les stratégies éditoriales ou de conservation, ainsi que les pratiques hybrides (texte / image) et les transferts intermédiaux.

L'image fixe dans l'enseignement de spécialité

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London Impressions d’Alice Meynell et William Hyde (1898) : fabrique du livre et connectivité

At a time when print was being challenged by new media that dematerialized information flows, the illustrated book London Impressions reflected an ideal of connectivity. A folio published by Constable in 1898, it gathered essays by Alice Meynell and photogravures and etchings by the English artist William Hyde. This article explores the editorial strategy that provided a record of fin-de-siècle urban modernity and aimed to guarantee the sustainability of the book as medium of inscription and transmission in a changing market. It contextualizes the way Hyde’s images were manufactured and tackles the material and medial notion of connectivity from the perspective of ecocriticism and media arc…

PRESENTATION: THE 2010 WORD & IMAGE CONFERENCE IN DIJON TEXTE ET IMAGE : LA THÉORIE AU 21ème SIECLE WORD AND IMAGE: THEORY IN THE 21 st CENTURY

International audience; Introduction au volume 32 de la revue Interfaces (2011)

"A little deeper into the sea": William Hyde's illustrations to Ford Madox Ford's The Cinque Ports

International audience; The broad aim of this paper is to explore the representation of the sea in its interaction with the coastline of the British Isles. It focuses on Ford Madox Ford [Hueffer]’s The Cinque Ports (Blackwood and Sons, 1900) illustrated by the English artist William Hyde (1857-1925).The original Cinque (i.e. “five”) Ports are located on the English southern coast: Hastings, Sandwich, Dover, Romney and Hythe, to which have been added Rye and Winchelsea. They were granted specific “liberties” by royal charter in the 13th century and they used to provide a line of defence against invasion as well as a point of entry into England. Ford set out to chronicle their history at the …

Woodcuts and Some Words: Edward Gordon Craig’s lasting impressions

This article examines Edward Gordon Craig’s analogy between drama and wood engraving, stage and printed page in his autobiographical handbook on wood engraving, Woodcuts and Some Words (1924). Taking as a premise Craig’s interest in the world of print as materialization of his “new theatre”, it explores the semantic shift of the notion of impression from the symbolist realm of suggestion to that of modernist imprint. It finally seeks to determine the significance of engraving in Craig’s career, a medium that was the matrix, the relic and the archive of the images and of the ideal vision he pursued all his life.

Interfaces : une transition vers le numérique et l’édition ouverte

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Lignes et points : Illustration, impressionnisme littéraire et procédés

International audience; Cette conférence a porté de manière générale sur les rapports entre illustration et procédés de reproduction. Elle est plus précisément consacrée à l’utilisation de la photogravure dans le livre illustré britannique de la fin du 19ème siècle. L’exemple choisi est le recueil d’essais London Impressions (Constable, 1898) d’Alice Meynell, illustré par l’artiste britannique William Hyde. Peintre et aquafortiste, Hyde collaborait avec l’inventeur écossais Donald Cameron-Swan (1863-1951) de la Swan Electric Engraving Company, spécialisée dans le cliché trait comme dans le cliché simili. À la croisée de pratiques autographiques et d’opérations mécaniques, la photogravure al…

Introduction: Impression(s)

This is the introduction to the volume "Impression(s)". The articles presented in this cluster discuss literary and visual impressions from the premise that literary impressionism and printmaking share the trope of impression as “impress” and as “imprints” in a technical and epistemological sense. Most works on Impressionism and literary impressionism dwell on the genealogy and mutual influence of fiction and painting, but few authors tackle the importance of printmaking. The five essays presented here all examine impressions as theme, trope and technique in 19th and 20th-century texts and images. These essays discuss intermedial practices, the mutual influence of artistic practice and text…

Graver, sculpter : un geste moderniste. Descriptions ekphrastiques dans les manuels de gravure sur bois des années 1920 et 1930 en Grande Bretagne

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Introduction : Interfaces volume 39 ("Gestures and their Traces")

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La satire graphique et le dessin de presse

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Orlando, posterity and textual survival beyond the book

This paper’s premise is that certain texts call for adaptation in the sense that they encapsulate anxieties about their posterity and their survival beyond their current material actualization. Orlando’s musings on death and immortality in Virginia Woolf’s eponymous novel are a case in point as they reflect a conflicted longing for the solidity of commemorative monuments and for the immateriality of memory-scapes. Lying “entombed” and “embalmed” in the medium of the book, words also rise “like an incantation” when brought to life by the reader (Orlando, Penguin Classics, 2000, 57). This passage is to be related to the modernist revival of interest in the works of Sir Thomas Browne which not…

Impression(s)

The articles presented in this cluster discuss literary and visual impressions from the premise that literary impressionism and printmaking share the trope of impression as “impress” and as “imprints” in a technical and epistemological sense. Most works on Impressionism and literary impressionism dwell on the genealogy and mutual influence of fiction and painting, but few authors tackle the importance of printmaking. The five essays presented here all examine impressions as theme, trope and technique in 19th and 20th-century texts and images. These essays discuss intermedial practices, the mutual influence of artistic practice and textual production, as well as the dual meaning of impressio…

Landscapes of War in Edward Ardizzone’s Illustrated Diaries. The Political and Pictorial Landscapes of WWII

My research is focused on Edward Ardizzone’s WWII war-scapes, more precisely his detailed textual descriptions and pictorial representations (sketches and water wash images) introduced in the illustrated manuscripts of his diaries (1943-45) and the published edition of this autobiographical narrative: Diary of a War Artist (1974). Using an interdisciplinary perspective, my research is aimed at identifying the textual and visual strategies explored by Ardizzone to describe within his illustrated diaries his subjective experiences of war. As I discovered through my research in Ardizzone’s archives at the Imperial War Museum in London, his written testimonials of what he witnessed during WWII,…

“‘Bosques distantes”: a matéria dos livros e a pastoral modernista“ (“‘Distant woods’: The matter of books and the modernist pastoral“)

This paper is part of a broader project that aims to examine the importance of the materials used in the making of illustrated books from a medial and ecocritical perspective. I focus on a specific case study in which I explore the attitude to nature encapsulated in the use of and reference to wood in British interwar wood-engraved illustrated books. My departure point is the English artist Paul Nash’s Places (Heinemann, 1922), a short collection of prose poems and wood-engravings. An elegy produced at a time when Nash was trying to come to terms with the aftermath of the First World War, Places was published after he made the great war paintings depicting the human losses and the ecocide p…

Introduction

Le livre illustré face à la danse : un médium empathique ?

This article looks at the illustrated book as an intermedial transaction relying on a process of empathetic reception. The books examined here belong to the revival of illustration in England after the First World War: the series Impressions of the Russian Ballet (1918-1922) written and published by Cyril Beaumont, and the ‘livre de peintre’ Russian Ballet (1919) written and illustrated by David Bomberg. Part and parcel of the reception of modern dance, and more precisely of the Russian ballet, these books emphasize the symbolic significance of print in its ability to capture the ephemeral performance of dance.

« Projet M-LIEN : le MOOC Métamorphoses du livre, une expérimentation à la croisée de l’enseignement et de la recherche »

Interfaces, volume 40: "Gestures and Transmission"

Danse et illustration : la marionnette et le masque de l’illustrateur

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Notices de catalogue d'exposition pour des œuvres de Muirhead Bone, Paul Nash et C. R. W. Nevinson

Notices de catalogue d'exposition pour des œuvres de Muirhead Bone, Paul Nash et C. R. W. Nevinson

“Distant woods”: the matter of books and the modernist pastoral

International audience; This paper is part of a broader project that aims to examine the importance of the materials used in the making of illustrated books from a medial and ecocritical perspective. I focus on a specific case study in which I explore the attitude to nature encapsulated in the use of and reference to wood in British interwar wood-engraved illustrated books. My departure point is the English artist Paul Nash’s Places (Heinemann, 1922), a short collection of prose poems and wood-engravings. An elegy produced at a time when Nash was trying to come to terms with the aftermath of the First World War, Places was published after he made the great war paintings depicting the human …

Illustrating Identity/ies

International audience; Ce volume examine les relations et les influences entre l'illustration et l’identité dans leurs formes et leurs significations multiples. Il interroge, et illustre, à travers une variété d’approches théoriques, d’études de cas, de projets professionnels et d’expériences personnelles, les moyens individuels, interculturels et interdisciplinaires par lesquels l’illustration contribue aujourd’hui et a contribué au fil du temps à la formation de l’identité ou des identités. Il fournit la preuve que l’illustration participe à l’expression, et même à la construction de l’identité ou des identités individuelles et collectives, que celles-ci soient culturelles, sociales, eth…