This project aims to understand how technical reproducibility transforms both the works of art and the museums that conserve and display them. In fact, one can create a “personal” virtual museum containing engravings, photographs, and films. Today, the digital revolution is leading a third revolution of the image and it provides virtual museums with unlimited expansion, i.e., “museums without walls.” Borrowed from Walter Benjamin, the concept of “dialectical images” embraces all of its meanings: past and present comingle as much within the images as they are rapidly reproduced, thus accessible. In order to approach this phenomenon, a triple paradigm has been chosen: “dialectical images” in connection with imaginary museums updated in the format of virtual museums. The phenomenon will be studied according to different corpuses, which, by the originality of their format, articulate these three aspects: postcards with their paradoxical relationship to monumentality, artists’ libraries, art historians’ photographs and illustrations, illustrations in sales catalogs, posters, images of cathedrals, and Artists’ Web Projects.
Responsables du projet
Ségolène LE MEN , HAR
Claire BARBILLON , Coordinator of the research team based in Ecole du Louvre , Université de Poitiers, CRIHAM
Partenaires au sein du labex
- History of Arts and Representations (HAR) - EA 4414
- La contemporaine | library, archives, museum of contemporary societies
- French National Library (BnF)
Autres partenaires associés
National Institute of Art History (INHA), France
https://www.inha.fr/
Rouen Museum
http://mbarouen.fr/
Rodin Museum
http://www.musee-rodin.fr/
École du Louvre
http://www.ecoledulouvre.fr/
Department of art history and film studies, University of Montreal
http://histart.umontreal.ca/
Department of history, archeology, geography, arts, and performing arts, University of Florence
http://www.storarte.unifi.it
Department of art history, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
http://www.geschichts-und-kunstwissenschaften.uni-muenchen.de
Department of history, Cambridge University
http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/
Durée du projet
4 years
Documents
Programme of the symposium "Scenes of the Impressionist Life:
A Musée imaginaire" - September 7&8, 2016
programme_colloque_musimaginaire_impressionnistes-1.pdf (
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776.35 Ko )
Call for papers - Early career researchers workshop - "The transfigured cathedral"
appel_a_communication_-_atelier_jeunes_chercheurs.pdf (
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102.65 Ko )
Call for papers "The transfigured cathedral" (German version only)
appel_a_communications.pdf (
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79.19 Ko )
Programme of the symposium "The transfigured cathedral"
programme_colloque.pdf (
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3.84 Mo )
Artists’ Libraries: A Resource for Art History
ISBN:
9782917902329
URL / DOI:
DOI of the journal
Editeur:
Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA)
Mots clés
library, artist's library, artists, art history, written sources, resources, archives, book, reading, genetics, circulation, network, imaginary picture galleryRésumé
Current research and work on artists’ libraries, which are relatively recent and based on the corpus, are inspired by the history of books and reading, strengthened by an interest in the archives as elements of a work of art, and an interest arising from genetic analysis and recognition of the place of artists in intellectual life. Artists’ libraries, when documented and sometimes preserved, not only represent a source, but can also become a resource facilitating an approach to the art works’ creation, and to the study of the circulation of ideas, concepts, poetics and images within artistic groups and circles. One of the issues addressed in this article is the access they offer to the artists’ imaginary museums, shared with contemporary readers of the same illustrated works of artistic literature. Finally, the content of these volumes, their dedications, and annotations specify the modalities of cultural appropriation, testify to the ways of reading, and highlight the relational networks of their owners.
Artists’ Libraries through the Prism of Digital Humanities: Monet’s Library
ISBN:
1777-7852
URL / DOI:
DOI of the journal
Editeur:
Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA)
Mots clés
artist's library, artists, digitization, digital library, sources, digital resource, book, reading, archives, research, digital humanitiesRésumé
The project Artists’ Libraries – part of the research program “Pasts in the Present” – aims to provide researchers and the general public not only with lists of works that constitute or constituted artists’ libraries in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, but also their dematerialized version. In order to manage the large amount of data, to ensure wide dissemination, and to be able to cross-reference searches around a library, a writer, or a book, the choice to digitize has been made. This article sets out to describe this approach through an extensive bibliography on the subject and by explaining the different stages and the thinking, theoretical as well as practical, that are given rise by such a project.
Artists' libraries
The team of project "Dialectical Images, imaginary museums, virtuel museums" developed a specific analysis of artists' librairies and a documentary web portal.
The team of project "Dialectical Images, imaginary museums, virtuel museums" developed a specific analysis of artists' librairies and a documentary web portal.
This project uses new technologies to explore an often overlooked archive type, that of the artists' libraries of the 19th and 20th centuries. These archives are less than well known in art history and yet are very important to a more comprehensive understanding of artworks as well as of the artists’ creative process. Browsing through the collections of books, magazines, catalogs and illustrations of these libraries allows us to discover the cultural world of the artists and the making of their art from a new angle.
This website is designed as a portal dedicated to the study of artists libraries. You will not only find the lists of their books, but you will also be able to leaf through their digitized version, to discover a constantly updated inventory of library collections through an interactive map. You will also be given access to methodological tools and instruments to better analyze these resources.
Click here to reach the website "Bibliothèques d'artistes".
Félicie de MAUPÉOU
Titre:
Dr. in History of Art
Fonction:
Research engineer for the project "Dialectical images, imaginary museums, virtual museums"
Institution:
Histoire des Arts et des Représentations, EA 4414
, Université Paris Nanterre
Participe au projet:
Dialectical images, imaginary museums, virtual museums
Email:
feliciedemaupeou@gmail.com
Bonnier et Monet. Autour de la mise en exposition des Nymphéas à l’Orangerie des Tuileries
Bonnier et Monet. Autour de la mise en exposition des Nymphéas à l’Orangerie des Tuileries
The Artist Libraries Project in the Labex Les passés dans le présent
URL / DOI:
The Artist Libraries Project in the Labex Les passés dans le présent
Claire GARCIA
Titre:
Doctor (History of contemporary art)
Fonction:
Chargée de programmation et des enseignements M2 et 3e cycle, École du Louvre
Institution:
École du Louvre
, Histoire des Arts et des Représentations, EA 4414
Participe au projet:
Dialectical images, imaginary museums, virtual museums
Ségolène LE MEN
Titre:
Professor (Art History)
Institution:
HAR
, University Paris Nanterre
Co-responsable du projet:
Dialectical images, imaginary museums, virtual museums
,
History of modern laughter (19th – 21st centuries): comic traditions and multimedia culture
Bio
Ségolène Le Men is Professor of Contemporary Art History, Paris Nanterre, Senior Member of the Institut universitaire de France. She has taken part to various exhibitions (among which Jules Chéret Pionier der Plakatkunst/Pioneer of Poster Art (dir. Michael Bührs with Réjane Bargiel and Martin F. Le Coultre), Munich, Museum Villa Stuck et Stuttgart, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2011), and written extensively about nineteenth Century French Art (painting, graphic arts, caricature): Courbet, New York, Abbeville Press, 2008; Daumier et la caricature, Paris, Citadelles & Mazenod, 2008; Monet, Citadelles & Mazenod, 2010); La bibliothèque de Monet (dir.), Citadelles & Mazenod, 2013
Héloïse et Abélard, un mythe romantique
Editeur:
Hazan
ISBN:
9782754107617
Le rêve en vignettes, de Grandville à Hervey de Saint Denys
The Artist Libraries Project in the Labex Les passés dans le présent
URL / DOI:
The Artist Libraries Project in the Labex Les passés dans le présent
Claire BARBILLON
Titre:
Professor of History of contemporary art
Fonction:
Coordinator of the research team based in Ecole du Louvre
Institution:
Université de Poitiers, CRIHAM
, Histoire des Arts et des Représentations, EA 4414
Co-responsable du projet:
Dialectical images, imaginary museums, virtual museums
Email:
barbillon.claire@orange.fr
Le paradoxe de la monumentalité en format réduit : la statuaire publique et la carte postale
ISBN:
978-2-84975-430-6
Comment regarder la sculpture, 1000 ans de sculpture occidentale
ISBN:
978-2754109826
Comment regarder la sculpture, 1000 ans de sculpture occidentale
ISBN:
978-2754109826