Albrecht Dürer
Ernest Raboff
Briefly discusses the influences upon Dürer, the fifteenth-century German artist, and the outstanding features of some of his paintings.
Read Time: ~5.5 hr
Le triomphe de l'artiste
by Tzvetan Todorov (2017)
About this book
Le discours soviétique officiel décrit progressivement la réalité du pays en termes qui ne correspondent pas à l'expérience commune, comme si les mots pouvaient créer les choses. L'importance de cette doctrine dépasse de loin le domaine esthétique, elle représente à l'état pur l'un des traits dominants de la société soviétique sous Staline car elle consacre le règne universel du mensonge". A la fois connaisseur de l'Union soviétique et grand penseur des oeuvres d'art, Tzvetan Todorov a souhaité éclairer les rapports idéologiques entre ceux qu'il nomme les "artistes créateurs" et le pouvoir politique à partir de la révolution d'Octobre.0Comment les artistes ont-ils annoncé la révolution ? Comment ont-ils ensuite obéi ou échappé au réalisme socialiste désireux d'annihiler toute création ? Todorov explore le destin d'artistes phares, Maïakovski, Pasternak, Boulgakov ou Mandelstam, et s'attarde sur le parcours singulier du peintre Kasimir Malevitch, dont la pluralité des voies artistiques fait écho à l'intensité de son engagement. Le Triomphe de l'artiste, c'est finalement le pouvoir de l'art sur celui qui veut sa mort.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreLe triomphe de l'artiste Lead Character
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