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Les passages parisiens de Walter Benjamin : <i>Gilles Behnam</i>
Articles PASSAGES : « Ces passages, nouvelle invention du luxe industriel, sont des galeries recouvertes de verre, lambrissées de marbre, qui traversent des blocs entiers d’immeubles dont les propriétaires se sont regroupés en vue de telles spéculations. De part et d’autre de ces galeries, qui reçoivent le jour d’en haut, s’alignent les boutiques les plus élégantes, en sorte qu’un pareil passage est une ville, un monde en miniature. »Définition tirée d’un Guide illustré de Paris, citée dans Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle 1. 1. J’ai souhaité dans cet article revenir sur ces lieux singuliers 2 tels qu’en parle de manière innovante et saisissante Walter Benjamin, et tenter de prendre la mesure de ses thèses et arguments. 2. 3. 4. 5. Mais justement la rupture est consommée chez Benjamin du fait que l’horizon futur du XIXe n’est plus celui de l’art, sans être cependant, comme chez Hegel, celui de la philosophie, mais plutôt celui de la technique. 6. 7. Gilles Behnam 1.
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STREET ART UTOPIA » We declare the world as our canvasSTREET ART UTOPIA » We declare the world as our canvas
Massive Art Nouveau-Inspired Mural in Montreal
For 16 days straight, from dawn to dusk, five highly determined Montreal-based artists (who make up the artist run collective A'shop) worked on a graffiti mural of a Mother Nature-esque Madonna or a modern-day version of "Our Lady of Grace." Inspired by Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha, the crew created this breathtakingly beautiful five story mural using 500 cans of spray paint in over 50 different colors. “We been doing graffiti for a long time but this is our first large project involving the whole team,” Fluke of A'shop told The Montreal Gazette. “We’re always busy with other projects so we’ve never really had time to let [the reactions to] them sink in. But this mural was just so big and also our last of the season. It was challenge, took us out of our comfort zone. The city gave the group complete control of the project and, luckily, the public ended up loving it. Fluke said that he hopes this project will encourage other city boroughs to consider murals of their own.
Passages & Galeries, Paris
Paris's historic covered arcades - locally known as passages or galeries - were the precursors of today's shopping malls. Of the more than one hundred passages that were built during the nineteenth century, about twenty have survived. Most of the surviving covered arcades are located in the very center of Paris, in or near the 2nd arrondissement. At the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century numerous covered passages were created in Paris. At its peak during the mid-nineteenth century, there was a network of more than 140 passages, many connected to each other. Galerie Colbert such as Galeries Lafayette and Printemps, and many were abandoned and started to fall in disrepair. Today the passages are home to numerous upscale, quirky and specialty shops. The oldest surviving covered shopping arcade is the Passage du Caire (Cairo Passage). Passage duGrand-Cerf It was named after panoramic paintings depicting large cities that originally decorated the entrance.
Interstices urbains et pratiques culturelles
Sommaire de l'article Navigation Zoomer : CTRL + Roulette de la souris Revenir au sommaire du dossier Quitter le dossier Notes et remarques [1] Paul Ardenne, extrait d’un entretien paru dans la revue Mouvement, n°50, janvier-mars 2009 [2] Pascal Nicolas-Le Strat , Expérimentations politiques, chapitre « Multiplicité interstitielle » [3] Livre vert sur la cohésion territoriale: faire de la diversité territoriale un atout. [4] Rapport Fabrice LEXTRAIT sur les Nouveaux territoires de l’art [5] Le territoire, dans sa définition anthropologique, telle que Marc Augé peut le définir comme espace relationnel, identitaire et historique. On parle ici de (non) lieu. [6] Multitudes n°31, Agir urbain, hiver 2008. « Dans les sociétés très normalisées qui étouffent sous le consensus, relèveront de l’art le plus intéressant a priori les créations qui instillent dans la mécanique du contrôle une figure d’indiscipline, d’irréductibilité à la normalisation. vers une nouvelle manière de vivre/d’investir la ville ?
Airigami
Vincent van Gogh used paint. Auguste Rodin worked in bronze. Larry Moss shapes air with the use of balloons. His medium may be somewhat unique in the art world, but Moss’s creations are inspired by the greatest artists of the past. His study of more traditional works can be seen most clearly in his series of parodies of well-known masterworks. All works shown here are available for purchase. Now available for sale in the Gift Shop A light-hearted gallery tour by Larry Moss and Kelly Cheatle It’s never too early to teach art appreciation.
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