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Text, Image and Embroidery: Threads and Scratches
2013
Ce texte a pour point de départ l’analyse des rapports entre une nouvelle de A. S. Byatt et ses illustrations, et s’attache à définir les métaphores du fil et de la trace utilisées pour décrire textes, tissus et images gravées depuis l’introduction de l’imprimerie et des modes industriels de reproduction. Sa perspective interdisciplinaire prend en compte l’apport de penseurs du 19ème siècle tels que John Ruskin, ainsi que les recherches récentes dans les domaines des rapports entre image et texte, de la médiologie et de l’anthropologie sociale.
Couleur et transparence à l’ère des procédés photomécaniques
2015
This paper aims to show that the reception of British coloured illustrated books in the early twentieth-century reflects the artistic and aesthetic repositioning induced by the development of photomechanical process. Photomechanical reproduction freed the graphic line as well as colour. Reviews published at the turn of the century—as exemplified by The Studio—reveal a tension between opacity and transparency, materiality and lightness, chromophilia and chromophobia. These oppositions apply to the art of the book—as in the books illustrated by Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac—as well as to interior decoration. They are subsumed in the image of the peacock’s ocellus, the eyespot that symbolise…
Lines or Dots? Reproduction Processes in Handbooks on Illustration, 1890s-1910s
2016
International audience; This chapter examines the way that black and white illustrators came to terms with the industrial use of photomechanical processes and the major changes that occurred in the reproduction of illustrations from the 1890s to the early decades of the 20th century. It explores how handbooks on illustration and illustrators’ autobiographies reflected the need to preserve the so-called “vitality” of the graphic line, an autographic trace of the artist’s gesture. It focuses on the contemporary description and reception of half-tone, the screened process that breaks up tone into dots and that was used to reproduce wash, watercolour, and photographs. This process was often cri…