Letter of Seminar
That the so-called “Spanish flu,” which claimed millions of lives worldwide between the spring of 1918 and the latter half of 1919, left almost no trace in art is surprising, to say the least. It is this mystery that has been plaguing art historian Thibault Boulvain, and which he has set out to unravel, ...
Romain Fathi is a student of the Great War and of commemorative practices. He invites us to reflect on the way in which Australia set up a section for the celebration of the arrival of the Australian and New Zealand Corps (ANZAC) in the Dardanelles in April 1915, a date hallowed as ...
Nicholas-Henri Zmelty defended a noted thesis (winner of the Orsay Museum Prize) on France’s ca. 1900 poster craze. Here, he looks at the mass-circulation illustrated press in France, investigating its strong links with prewar culture from the standpoint of heroic, erotic, and humorous representations. Laurence Bertrand Dorléac Between 1914 and 1918, the French illustrated ...
Thibault Boulvain studies here the work of Kader Attia, whose recent efforts are of fundamental importance for our reflections on how the events of colonial times and transfers between the African continent and the European one are committed to memory. Through his work, Attia investigates art’s role as the site within which conflicts are ...
“I didn’t paint war scenes in order to prevent war; never would I have had that pretension,” Otto Dix told Otto Wundshammer in 1946. “I painted them in order to conjure war away. All art is conjuration.” In evaluating his own work more than twenty years after the Great War of 1914-1918, Dix subscribed to ...
