ANGLAIS - Victorian printing and William Morris’s Kelmscott Press (un article de Laura Mingam)During the Victorian period, the Industrial Revolution reached the field of printing, and profoundly altered book production in England. Even though technical innovations led to the creation of dazzling volumes, the artist designer William Morris denounced the corruption of traditional printing methods. As a reaction against the standards of his time, William Morris decided to open his own printing press, with the aim of “producing [books] which would have a definite claim to beauty”. The Kelmscott Press was to become a new landmark in the history of English printing.
ANGLAIS - The Essential David Shrigley (un article de Johanna Felter)David Shrigley is a multidisciplinary artist who started his career in the early nineties, self-publishing art books containing the cartoon-like drawings which made him famous. Their trademarks, which are also recognizable in his varied artistic productions – clumsy execution, sloppy handwriting, disturbing or puzzling text, dark humour and uncanny atmosphere – helped Shrigley to gradually shape a clearly distinctive personality in his work which brought him out as one of the current key figures of the British contemporary art scene.
ANGLAIS - Ragnarok - A conversation with A.S. ByattA.S. Byatt took part in the seventh edition of the Assises Internationales du Roman, organised by the Villa Gillet and Le Monde. She answered our questions on her latest novel,
Ragnarok.
ANGLAIS - Quelques nouvelles gravures de Hogarth et leurs commentairesA Country Inn-Yard
Industry and Idleness
Hymen and Cupid
Mr. Ranby's House at Chiswick
The March to Finchley
The Gate of Calais
Beer Street
Gin Lane
Four Stages of Cruelty
Paul Before Felix
Moses Before Pharaoh's Daughter
Columbus Breaking the Egg
Crowns, Mitres, Maces, &c.
ITALIEN - Incontro con Giuliano MontaldoL'Istituto italiano di cultura di Lione ha invitato il 5 aprile 2013 all'Università Lyon 3 il Maestro del cinema Giuliano Montaldo. Il regista, sceneggiatore, attore, da oltre sessanta anni, si occupa di cinema ed è considerato uno dei maggiori realizzatori italiani; era accompagnato “dalla compagna di una vita” Vera Pescarolo, soggettista, produttrice e figlia dell'attrice pirandelliana Vera Vergani.
ITALIEN - Billet littéraire - Lilli Gruber, Eredità. Una storia della mia famiglia tra l'Impero e il fascismo Germania o Italia: bisogna scegliere.
Discussioni animate in tutte le case, giovani contro anziani. Partire verso dove? Restare e subire? Da una parte gli Optanten, coloro che decidono irrevocabilmente di assumere la cittadinanza tedesca e di volersi trasferire; dall'altra parte i Dableiber, coloro che restano e dichiarano di conservare la cittadinanza italiana.
ITALIEN - Chronique cinéma - Luciano Emmer, La ragazza in vetrina
L'histoire commence dans une gare, à la nuit tombée. Quatre hommes descendent d'un train. Ils cherchent la mine. Nous sommes en Belgique, on le comprend à l'accent du chef de gare. De langues, il sera beaucoup question. Une langue qui réunit les uns et sépare les autres.
ITALIEN - DOSSIER Dario Fo e Franca RameÀ l'occasion de la disparition de Franca Rame La Clé italienne vous rappelle l'existence d'un dossier Dario Fo et Franca Rame qui propose de nombreuses analyses sur leur théâtre hors du commun.