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Printmaking during the First World War: the ‘unseen moving goal’
2015
International audience; The broad aim of this chapter is to examine the ethical function of wartime art during the FOrst World War. It focuses on printmaking in the context of the revival of the graphic arts and draws from the theory of craft to determine how media such as lithography and wood-engraving contributed to an ethics of the creative gesture in a way that differed from photography and painting. As specific modes of individual expression and responsiveness, they displayed a utopian ideal that conveyed an implicit critique of mechanised war.
De la paternité biologique à la filiation artistique : héritages et appropriations dans les Vies de Giorgio Vasari
2010
The biographic genre allows Vasari to present narratives of artists' vocations in which the relation to the biological father varies from imitation to sometimes violent opposition. But in the Lives the father’s role towards the young artist, be it for the latter’s education or for his training, is gradually taken up by his sponsors on the one hand and by his masters on the other hand. The structure of biography turns into the story of artistic transmission and development. The ambivalent relationship of the creative artist to his master is thus renewed – imitation vs. opposition or imitation vs. invention – but the fundamental question of multiple models also appears. This complex relation …