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The Stories of the Mona Lisa
“Dad, will you tell me a story?” asks a little girl. “Sure,” artist Piotr Barsony responds. “I’ll tell you a story about a painting. And the Mona Lisa, the most beautiful painting in all the world, will be our subject.” Thus begins the fascinating history of modern painting through what many consider the most famous work in the history of art: the Mona Lisa by Léonardo De Vinci. Piotr acts as the museum guide for his young daughter throughout the book, taking us on a journey through an imaginary museum. He describes famous art movements and artists, including: impressionism, cubism, expressionism, favism, minimalism, surrealism; Monet, Manet, Cézanne, Picasso, Bacon, Pollock,...
France's Colonial Legacies
In an era of commemoration, France’s Colonial Legacies contributes to the debates taking place in France about the place of empire in the contemporary life of the nation, debates that have been underway since the 1990s and that now reach across public life and society with manifestations in the French parliament, media and universities. France’s empire and the gradual process of its loss is one of the defining narratives of the contemporary nation, contributing to the construction of its image both on the international stage and at home. While certain intellectuals present the imperial period as an historical irrelevance that ended in the years following the Second World War, the contested legacies of France’s colonies continue to influence the development of French society in the view of scholars of the postcolonial. This volume surveys the memorial practices and discourses that are played out in a range of arenas, drawing on the expertise of researchers working in the fields of politics, media, cultural studies, literature and film to offer a wide-ranging picture of remembrance in contemporary France.
Opening the Gates
How the occupation of a watch factory became one of the iconic labor struggles after May 1968 In 1973, faced with massive layoffs, workers at the legendary Lip watch firm in Besançon, France, occupied their factory to demand that no one lose their job. They seized watches and watch parts, assembled and sold watches, and paid their own salaries. Their actions recaptured the ideals of May 1968, when 11 million workers had gone on strike to demand greater autonomy and to overturn the status quo. Educated by ’68, the men and women at the Besançon factory formed committees to control every aspect of what became a national struggle. Female employees developed a working-class feminism, combatin...
An Impatient Life
A philosopher and activist, eager to live according to ideals forged in study and discussion, Daniel Bensad was a man deeply entrenched in both the French and the international left. Raised in a staunchly red neighbourhood of Toulouse, where his family owned a bistro, he grew to be France's leading Marxist public intellectual, much in demand on talk shows and in the press. A lyrical essayist and powerful public speaker, at his best expounding large ideas to crowds of students and workers, he was a founder member of the Ligue Communiste and thrived at the heart of a resurgent far left in the 1960s, which nurtured many of the leading figures of today's French establishment. The path from the joyous explosion of May 1968, through the painful experience of defeat in Latin America and the world-shaking collapse of the USSR, to the neoliberal world of today, dominated as it is by global finance, is narrated in An Impatient Life with Bensad's characteristic elegance of phrase and clarity of vision. His memoir relates a life of ideological and practical struggle, a never-resting endeavour to comprehend the workings of capitalism in the pursuit of revolution.
Youth and Memory in Europe
This volume contends that young individuals across Europe relate to their country’s history in complex and often ambivalent ways. It pays attention to how both formal education and broader culture communicate ideas about the past, and how young people respond to these ideas. The studies collected in this volume show that such ideas about the past are central to the formation of the group identities of nations, social movements, or religious groups. Young people express received historical narratives in new, potentially subversive, ways. As young people tend to be more mobile and ready to interrogate their own roots than later generations, they selectively privilege certain aspects of their identities and their identification with their family or nation while neglecting others. This collection aims to correct the popular misperception that young people are indifferent towards history and prove instead that historical narratives are constitutive to their individual identities and their sense of belonging to something broader than themselves.
Representations of Art and Art Museums in Children’s Picture Books
What happens when the assumptions and practices of museum curators and art educators intersect with the assumptions and practices of publishing for children? This study explores how over three hundred children's picture books, most of them published in the last three decades in English, introduce children to art and art museums. It considers how the books emerge from and relate to a range of theories and assumptions about childhood and childhood development, children's literature and culture, illustration, visual art, museology, and art education. As well as examining how these theories and assumptions influence what picture books teach young readers about visiting museums and about how to l...
Comment Marianne a perdu son âme
Nous sommes en 2050 et la France est au bord de l'explosion : perte de contrôle de notre économie, multiplication des attentats terroristes, intensification des tensions intercommunautaires, recrudescence de la délinquance, éclatement des structures familiales, restriction des libertés individuelles, déliquescence du système éducatif... Les premières victimes de cette débâcle sont les personnes les plus vulnérables et en particulier les enfants. Peut-on expliquer ce désastre avec humour ? En invitant le lecteur à voyager dans la France de demain, l'auteur démontre que la catastrophe annoncée prend sa source dans les errements politiques d'aujourd'hui.
Catalogue Clermont FilmFest01
Catalogue du 23e Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand 2001
CAMION BLANC
Si les années 80 étaient narcissiques, les 90’s désenchantées, durant la période 2000-2015 certains artistes semblent se dévaloriser, manquer de confiance en eux. La première partie de l’ouvrage est consacrée aux rockers, aux marginaux, aux textes de Daniel Darc, Damien Saez, Didier Wampas, des Fatals Picards. Puis c’est au tour des bobos, Carla Bruni, Raphaël, du Pop-Rock, « M », Dionysos, Axelle Red, Emilie Simon, Calogero. Ce qui caractérise surtout les années 2000-2015, ce sont les artistes polyvalents, à la fois acteurs et chanteurs, Benjamin Biolay, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Julien Doré, les individualistes, Stromae, Cali, Christophe Willem, Emily Loizeau, les chanteurs fantaisistes ou ironiques, Brigitte Fontaine, Sanseverino, Philippe Katerine, Vincent Delerm. Enfin, les chanteurs populaires, parfois populistes, Zaz, Bénabar et son regard désabusé.
