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Porte-Manteau
A single line, wrought in metal, becomes a human profile. Turn it slightly and the character of the profile changes, from angry to pensive, from surprised to sullen. Made of the humblest material, recycled wire hangers, Gilles Collette's Porte-manteau sculptures combine wire, light, space and the viewer's vantage point to form quasi-kinetic portraits. From the primordial line emerges a multitude of shapes and expressions, delicately delineated in space, forming the thin separation between absence and fullness of form. Expressive portraits from one viewpoint, some of the figures become abstract from another: arabesques in light and shadow, dancing figures, fantastic flora. Some portraits change genders from one shot to the next; others emerge from what appeared to be a straight line...
Handlingar
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Fabricating Women
DIVA study of the seamstresses of late 17th and 18th-century France, who developed a quintessentially feminine occupation that became a major factor in the urban economy./div
The Legal News
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The Legal News
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Le manteau
"Le Manteau" est une nouvelle écrite par l'écrivain russe Nikolaï Vassilievitch Gogol, publiée pour la première fois en 1842. Cette œuvre est l'une des plus célèbres et des plus influentes de Gogol, et elle est souvent considérée comme un chef-d'œuvre de la littérature russe. L'histoire de "Le Manteau" tourne autour d'un modeste fonctionnaire, Akaki Akakiévitch Bashmatchkine, qui travaille comme copiste dans un bureau gouvernemental de Saint-Pétersbourg. Akakiévitch est un homme timide et effacé, dont la vie monotone est soudainement transformée lorsqu'il décide de remplacer son vieux manteau usé par un nouveau. Cependant, lorsque son nouveau manteau est volé, la quête p...
