NEW EVENTS by Laurent P R Châtel
LE PAYSAGE,
entre matière
et esprit, culture matérielle et culture immatérielle
7 & 8 JUIN 2023... more LE PAYSAGE,
entre matière
et esprit, culture matérielle et culture immatérielle
7 & 8 JUIN 2023
UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE - MUSÉE DU LOUVRE-LENS
Climat et Environnement, Jan 7, 2022
Climat et Environnement is the 54th issue of the journal Dix-Huitième Siècle.
Co-directed by Laur... more Climat et Environnement is the 54th issue of the journal Dix-Huitième Siècle.
Co-directed by Laurent Brassart, Laurent Châtel, Emily-Anne Pepy, Anouchka Vasak
Marina Warner at Lille: June 16th, 2022
Marina Warner écrit des oeuvres de fictions, des essais critiques et historiques sur l'art, les m... more Marina Warner écrit des oeuvres de fictions, des essais critiques et historiques sur l'art, les mythes, les symboles et les contes de fées. Elle a consacré des études à la Vierge, à Jeanne d'Arc, et à Shéhérazade.
Femme, femme, femme, 2022
JUIN 2022-15h à 18h 15h-Ersy Contogouris 15h30-Béatrice Laurent 16h00-Laure Nermel 16h30-Table ro... more JUIN 2022-15h à 18h 15h-Ersy Contogouris 15h30-Béatrice Laurent 16h00-Laure Nermel 16h30-Table ronde 16 JUIN 2022-9h30 à 18h 9h30-, Laurent Châtel et Laure Nermel
ENHANCED PERCEPTION, 2021
June 16th-June 17th
MATERIAL AND VISUAL CULTURE
M.A and Doctoral Study Programme - open to all
E... more June 16th-June 17th
MATERIAL AND VISUAL CULTURE
M.A and Doctoral Study Programme - open to all
ENHANCED PERCEPTION- BEYOND FIXED IMAGES AND HERITAGE
Ecrire et peindre le paysage en France et en Grande-Bretagne, 2021
Une double enquête menée à la fois sur la France et sur l'Angleterre qui apporte un éclairage co... more Une double enquête menée à la fois sur la France et sur l'Angleterre qui apporte un éclairage comparé et contrasté sur la question du paysage trop souvent envisagée sous le seul angle « national ». On y entend les voix des peintres paysagistes, des collectionneurs et des amateurs, avec leurs mots pour « dire » le paysage. Si Augustin Berque inclut le critère linguistique pour déterminer le degré de maturité d'une civilisation paysagère, c'est parce que les discours, tout autant que la pratique,-échanges et correspondances entre artistes-articulent une théorie du paysage. L'examen de la terminologie et de l'écriture permet d'évaluer la pertinence de catégories comme celles de « paysage historique » ou de « pittoresque ».
Table des matières voir ici: http://pur-editions.fr/couvertures/1615451477_doc.pdf
Introduction: http://pur-editions.fr/couvertures/1615451465_doc.pdf
Illustration: En couverture : John Constable, The Hay Wain, dit aussi Une charrette de foin traversant un gué au pied d'une ferme, paysage, 1821, huile sur toile, 130,2 × 185,4 cm, Londres, The National Gallery. 9 782753 580367 ISBN 978-2-7535-8036-7 28 €
Capability Brown, Royal Gardener: the Business of Place-Making in Northern Europe, 2020
Jardins en images, 2021
Chapitre "To see or not to see": La question du visuel dans les jardins en Angleterre
dans l'o... more Chapitre "To see or not to see": La question du visuel dans les jardins en Angleterre
dans l'ouvrage JARDINS EN IMAGES - sur l'interaction dans l'histoire du jardin avec ses images - culture visuelle, manière de voir, représentations.
Direction: Michael Jakob & Jacques Berchtold.
MétisPresse
2021
36 euros
Fancy in Eighteenth-century European Visual Culture, eds. Melissa Percival and Muriel Adrien (Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool University Press, 2020), 2020
Description of the book:
Fancy in the eighteenth century was part of a rich semantic network,... more Description of the book:
Fancy in the eighteenth century was part of a rich semantic network, connecting wit, whimsicality, erotic desire, spontaneity, deviation from norms and triviality. It was also a contentious term, signifying excess, oddness and irrationality, liable to offend taste, reason and morals. This collection of essays foregrounds fancy – and its close synonym, caprice – as a distinct strand of the imagination in the period. As a prevalent, coherent and enduring concept in aesthetics and visual culture, it deserves a more prominent place in scholarly understanding than it has hitherto occupied. Fancy is here understood as a type of creative output that deviated from rules and relished artistic freedom. It was also a mode of audience response, entailing a high degree of imaginative engagement with playful, quirky artworks, generating pleasure, desire or anxiety. Emphasizing commonalities between visual productions in different media from diverse locations, the authors interrogate and celebrate the expressive freedom of fancy in European visual culture. Topics include: the seductive fictions of the fancy picture, Fragonard and galanterie, fancy in drawing manuals, pattern books and popular prints, fans and fancy goods, chinoiserie, excess and virtuality in garden design, Canaletto's British 'capricci', urban design in Madrid, and Goya's 'Caprichos'.
Next seminar Observatoire des Faitiches Visuels: 28 février 2019
Nahalie Delbard (SEAC Lille)
Oxford Garden and Landscape Studies Seminar, September 2017
CALL FOR PAPERS
To date, scholarship... more Oxford Garden and Landscape Studies Seminar, September 2017
CALL FOR PAPERS
To date, scholarship on the history of gardens has tended to focus on private and élite gardens and only recently have academics turned their attention to the landscapes of institutions. (Hickman, 2013; Chance, 2017). While the genealogy of institutional landscapes, with their functional and metaphorical allusions to divine order, political power and collective identity have been traced to Antiquity (Von Stackelberg, 2013) the institutional landscape, a didactic space which became more visible and diverse with the growth of social and political institutions such as public parks, museums, asylums and factories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has not so far been examined comparatively and culturally. In this one-day seminar we will study a variety of institutional landscapes-factories, hospitals and asylums, public houses, museums, community gardens-to discuss the ideologies implicit in their design, use and afterlife. Relevant topics might include, but are not limited to: • Design and the performance of democracy and citizenship in the institutional landscape • Individual and collective identity in public gardens • The institutional landscape and public ritual • The institutional landscape as a contested space • The institutional landscape and public history • Institutional landscapes as heterotopias • Place identification and branding in the public landscape • Embodiment and display in the institutional landscape Papers/presentations will be in English. The organisers propose that the papers from this seminar might form the basis for an edited book on the didactic landscape.
Date: sept 2017.
Study Day about the Uses of Digital Technologies for the Transfer of Knowledge and Heritage, Pari... more Study Day about the Uses of Digital Technologies for the Transfer of Knowledge and Heritage, Paris Sorbonne, HDEA EA 4086, April 21st
The first review of William Beckford The Elusive Orientalist (Oxford, 2016).
'The meaning of the garden and the larger landscape of which gardens are a part can only be under... more 'The meaning of the garden and the larger landscape of which gardens are a part can only be understood today as a whole, as an ecology of interrelated and connected thoughts, spaces, activities and symbols'. Francis and Hester: The Meaning of Garden
Colloque interdisciplinaire organisé par les équipes d'accueil: Anglophonie : communautés, écritu... more Colloque interdisciplinaire organisé par les équipes d'accueil: Anglophonie : communautés, écritures (rennes 2, eA 1796) HDEA: Histoire et dynamique des espaces anglophones (paris sorbonne, eA 4086)
STUDY DAY
OXFORD
Maison Française d'oxford
GREEN WALLS, to be or not to be
A study day on green ... more STUDY DAY
OXFORD
Maison Française d'oxford
GREEN WALLS, to be or not to be
A study day on green walls, vertical planting and living walls : forms, uses and good practices
See programme PDF attached
OSE
William Beckford
the elusive Orientalist
Volume: OSE 2016:11
Series editor: Gregory S. Brown... more OSE
William Beckford
the elusive Orientalist
Volume: OSE 2016:11
Series editor: Gregory S. Brown
Author: Laurent Châtel
Date of publication: November 2016
Pagination: xvi + 268 pp., 8 ill., pb (broché)
Price: £65 / €75 / $85
ISBN-13: 978-0-7294-1188-2
Description: The writer and aesthete William Beckford (1760-1844) was a fascinating embodiment of the sublime egotist. Because of his extravagance, fabulousness and enigmatic nature, biographers have alternately presented him as an object of fascination or dismissed him as an insolent and deceptive character. Laurent Châtel provides an innovative reassessment of Beckford by presenting ‘elusiveness’ as the defining motif for understanding both the writer and his work.
Laurent Châtel opens his analysis by exploring the author’s fascination for the East, which informed several of his multi-layered works such as ‘The long story’, 'Suite des contes arabes’ and Vathek. By reconnecting him with the eighteenth-century aesthetic of translation and reappropriation of the Arabian nights, Châtel shows how Beckford’s Orientalism was key to his elusiveness and presents him as a fabulist who supplemented existing tales with touches of wonder and horror. In further chapters Châtel explores his lack of recognition as a man of letters – whether desired or not. Through an analysis of the arguably limited reception of Beckford’s works, in particular in France both during his lifetime and immediately after his death, we see how his deliberate elusiveness of style was constitutive of his identity. In his groundbreaking repositioning of Beckford, Laurent Châtel provides a new framework for further explorations of his work and their rich overlay of intertextual presences.
‘Laurent Châtel engages perceptively with the shifting borders of translation, revisioning, interpretation and imitation, in ways that illuminate continuing issues around Orientalist scholarship. This is an admirable, luxuriantly detailed and most rewarding study.’
Marina Warner, author of Stranger magic: charmed states and the ‘Arabian nights’
List of illustrations
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Orientalist Beckford
1. Turning East: Orientalist learning, aesthetics and taste
2. ‘As Indian as ever’: ‘The long story’
3. ‘Sparks of Orientalism’: Beckford’s ‘children of the Nights’
4. ‘Such a valuable morsel of Orientalism’: Beckford’s Vathek and its Episodes
Part II. In search of the author: authorised translations and translated authorship
5. ‘[N]os bons literateurs ont paru meme ignorer leur existence.’ Invisible in France? The French reception of Beckford, 1760-1876
6. ‘Inconnu dans les annales de la terre’: the missed fortune of Beckford
Conclusion: Beckford re-Oriented
Appendix A. Beckford’s Orientalist collection of books, prints and drawings
Appendix B. ‘Beckford Orientalising’: dreaming of Father Urreta’s Ethiopian underworld
Bibliography
Index
“The Cultures and Politics of Leisure in the British Isles & the United States”
An International... more “The Cultures and Politics of Leisure in the British Isles & the United States”
An International Symposium Organized by the Research Group Histoire et Dynamique des Espaces Anglophones (HDEA), Université Paris-Sorbonne
Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France
November 6-7, 2015
Friday November 6, Université Paris-Sorbonne,
Historical Sorbonne building (1, rue Victor Cousin, 75005 Paris), Room J636
9:00-9:15 am
Registration of participants
9:15-9:30 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks by Pascal Aquien, Vice-President of the Scientific Council, Université Paris-Sorbonne
9:30-10:30 am
Session 1 – Situating and Materializing Leisure (I): The Territories of Leisure [Chair: Aurélie Godet, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7]
Elsa Devienne, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre:
“Building a Beach for the Modern City: Urban Planning and the Making of New York and Los Angeles’ Beaches (1930s-1970s)”
Nicolas Martin-Breteau, Université de Lille 3:
“‘Patient and Tolerant to an Extreme’: The Desegregation of Baltimore's Leisure Areas in the “Long” Civil Rights Movement (1930s-1950s)”
10:30-11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 am
Session 2 – Situating and Materializing Leisure (II): Bodies at Play [Chair: Hélène Quanquin, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Lawrence McDonnell, Department of History, Iowa State University:
“Dancing Up a Storm: Elite Leisure and Gender Confusion in the Old South (1840-1850)”
Olaf Stieglitz, Dept History, University of Cologne, Germany:
“Debs & Surf Queens – Swimming and Modern Female Bodies in the United States, 1900s – 1930s”
12:00 am -2:00 pm: Conference Lunch
2:00-3:00 pm: Keynote Address [Chair: Laurent Châtel]
Emma Griffin, University of East Anglia:
“Remaking Leisure for the Modern World: Changing Practices 1750-1914”
3:00-4:30 pm:
Session 3 – The Politics of Leisure (I): Engagement, Resistance, Repression [Chair: Paul Schor, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7]
Sarah Pickard, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle:
“Serious Leisure, Serious Pleasure: Applying the Serious Leisure Model to Political Participation Among Young People in Britain”
Michael Stewart Foley, University of Groningen:
“We Are the One: Subcultural Leisure and Politics in Early San Francisco Punk”
Peter Marquis, Université de Rouen:
“The Politics of Leisure: Baseball and Anti-Communist Containment in Cold War Brooklyn”
4:30-5:00 pm: Coffee Break
5:00-6:30 pm:
Session 4 – The Politics of Leisure (II): Boundaries of Nationalism [Chair: Franziska Heimburger, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Karine Chambefort, Université Paris-Est Créteil:
“Outdoor Leisure Activities in Simon Roberts’s We English Photographic Project: Re-Writing Landscape and Nation”
Kristin Hass, Department of American Culture, University of Michigan:
“Militarism and Tourism in 21st Century Washington: High Stakes Deep Play on the National Mall”
Jeremy R. Kinney, Curator, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum:
“The British Sports Car and American Leisure, 1945-1985”
6:30 pm: Cocktail
Saturday Nov. 7, Petit Amphithéâtre,
Maison de la Recherche (28 rue Serpente, 75005 Paris)
9:00-9:30 am:
Registration
9:30-10:30 am:
Session 5 – Communities of Leisure [Chair: Pierre Lurbe, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Mathilde Bertrand, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne:
“‘Making the Art of Fun Freely Available’: Leisure Practices as Tools of Emancipation in Community art Experiments in Britain in the 1970s”
Arnaud Page, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“‘Work or Leisure?’: The Politics of Allotment Gardening in Great Britain”
10:30-11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 am
Session 6 – Institutions of Leisure [Chair: Nathalie Caron, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Claire Delen, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“Organised Leisure at Huntley and Palmers’ Biscuit Factory (1841-1976)”
Emmanuel Roudaut, Sciences Po Lille:
“Tote Clubs, Dog Tracks and Newspaper Competitions: Moral Panics and Popular Leisure in Interwar Britain”
Thibaut Clément, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“‘Adults Are Only Grown Up Kids Anyway’: Play and its Practical Uses at the Happiest Place on Earth”
12:30-2:00 pm: Conference Lunch
2:00-3:00 pm: Keynote Address [Chair: Andrew Diamond, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Victoria Wolcott, University of Buffalo, New York:
“Dangerous Play: Racial Conflict in Twentieth-Century Urban Amusements”
3:00-4:40 pm
Session 7 – Playing Indian, Indians at Play [Chair: Marine Le Puloch, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7]
Fabrice Delsahut, ESPE Paris 4:
“Du baggataway au Lacrosse. Un exemple de la sportivisation des jeux amérindiens”
Suzanne Berthier-Foglar, Université Stendhal – Grenoble 3:
“Indian ‘Detours’ in New Mexico (19th – 20th century): A Primitivist Pastime or a Tool of Integration?”
Mathieu Charle, EHESS-LIAS
“Public Festivals, Private Rituals: An analysis of Contemporary American Indian Pow-Wows of the Northwest”
4:30-5:00 pm: Coffee Break
5:00-6:30
Session 8 – The Technologies of Leisure [Chair: Divina Frau-Meigs, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle]
Yves Figueiredo, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“The Uses of Photography and the Definition of Leisure Practices in California and the West (1880s – 1910s)”
Pierre-Louis Patoine, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle:
“Leisure and Technical Milieu in the 21st century: Inhabiting Fantasy Worlds through Video Game Playing and Literary Reading”
Olivier Frayssé, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“Leisure in the Age of the Internet: Solution and Dissolution”
8:00 pm: Conference Dinner
Next event:” LANDSCAPE PAINTERS ANONYMOUS” NOVEMBER 11th, 2015, 5-8pm
The evening will begin wit... more Next event:” LANDSCAPE PAINTERS ANONYMOUS” NOVEMBER 11th, 2015, 5-8pm
The evening will begin with a tour of the current Hestercombe Gallery exhibitions ‘Arcadia’ the culmination of Bayliss’ summerlong residency and ‘Wish You
Were Here?’ artist postcards from Jeremy Cooper’s collection.
In the subsequent talk Bayliss reveals his conflicting feelings about becoming a landscape painter. He discusses the limitations and freedoms of a romantic or picturesque approach to landscape, in relation to both tourist art in the South West and the landscape gardens at Hestercombe. Through considering the work made during his residency Bayliss also describes his exploration of personal and artistic identity through painterly connection to place.
Châtel will follow with a talk ‘In and Out of Landscape – Eighteenth-Century Virtual Reality Experiences’ which describes how tricky the notion of the ‘picturesque’ was in the eighteenth century. This is not with a pedantic academic intent at linguistic clarification, but with a view to transferring us back to eighteenth century visual and mental habits, showing how men and women at the time used and perceived the picturesque.
Châtel will point to the new technologies which today enable us to digitally obtain an experience of ‘virtual reality’ not altogether alien to their own experiences of imagination, fancy and virtuality within gardens back in the 1750s, such as at Hestercombe.
A discussion chaired by Hestercombe curator Tim Martin will conclude the evening.
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The Reception of the Wild Garden: Robinson in Britain and France
Florence André, Richard Bisgrov... more The Reception of the Wild Garden: Robinson in Britain and France
Florence André, Richard Bisgrove, Brent Elliott, Martin Sirot
+ William Robinson Festival, Gravetye Manor, July 4th - visit
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NEW EVENTS by Laurent P R Châtel
entre matière
et esprit, culture matérielle et culture immatérielle
7 & 8 JUIN 2023
UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE - MUSÉE DU LOUVRE-LENS
Co-directed by Laurent Brassart, Laurent Châtel, Emily-Anne Pepy, Anouchka Vasak
MATERIAL AND VISUAL CULTURE
M.A and Doctoral Study Programme - open to all
ENHANCED PERCEPTION- BEYOND FIXED IMAGES AND HERITAGE
Table des matières voir ici: http://pur-editions.fr/couvertures/1615451477_doc.pdf
Introduction: http://pur-editions.fr/couvertures/1615451465_doc.pdf
Illustration: En couverture : John Constable, The Hay Wain, dit aussi Une charrette de foin traversant un gué au pied d'une ferme, paysage, 1821, huile sur toile, 130,2 × 185,4 cm, Londres, The National Gallery. 9 782753 580367 ISBN 978-2-7535-8036-7 28 €
https://universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/books/e/10.22599/CapabilityBrown/
Chapter 13:
Laurent Châtel and Monique Mosser
Brown Invisible in France? The French Perception and Reception of Eighteenth-Century British Gardens -
direct link:
https://universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/books/10.22599/CapabilityBrown/read/?loc=020.xhtml
dans l'ouvrage JARDINS EN IMAGES - sur l'interaction dans l'histoire du jardin avec ses images - culture visuelle, manière de voir, représentations.
Direction: Michael Jakob & Jacques Berchtold.
MétisPresse
2021
36 euros
Fancy in the eighteenth century was part of a rich semantic network, connecting wit, whimsicality, erotic desire, spontaneity, deviation from norms and triviality. It was also a contentious term, signifying excess, oddness and irrationality, liable to offend taste, reason and morals. This collection of essays foregrounds fancy – and its close synonym, caprice – as a distinct strand of the imagination in the period. As a prevalent, coherent and enduring concept in aesthetics and visual culture, it deserves a more prominent place in scholarly understanding than it has hitherto occupied. Fancy is here understood as a type of creative output that deviated from rules and relished artistic freedom. It was also a mode of audience response, entailing a high degree of imaginative engagement with playful, quirky artworks, generating pleasure, desire or anxiety. Emphasizing commonalities between visual productions in different media from diverse locations, the authors interrogate and celebrate the expressive freedom of fancy in European visual culture. Topics include: the seductive fictions of the fancy picture, Fragonard and galanterie, fancy in drawing manuals, pattern books and popular prints, fans and fancy goods, chinoiserie, excess and virtuality in garden design, Canaletto's British 'capricci', urban design in Madrid, and Goya's 'Caprichos'.
CALL FOR PAPERS
To date, scholarship on the history of gardens has tended to focus on private and élite gardens and only recently have academics turned their attention to the landscapes of institutions. (Hickman, 2013; Chance, 2017). While the genealogy of institutional landscapes, with their functional and metaphorical allusions to divine order, political power and collective identity have been traced to Antiquity (Von Stackelberg, 2013) the institutional landscape, a didactic space which became more visible and diverse with the growth of social and political institutions such as public parks, museums, asylums and factories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has not so far been examined comparatively and culturally. In this one-day seminar we will study a variety of institutional landscapes-factories, hospitals and asylums, public houses, museums, community gardens-to discuss the ideologies implicit in their design, use and afterlife. Relevant topics might include, but are not limited to: • Design and the performance of democracy and citizenship in the institutional landscape • Individual and collective identity in public gardens • The institutional landscape and public ritual • The institutional landscape as a contested space • The institutional landscape and public history • Institutional landscapes as heterotopias • Place identification and branding in the public landscape • Embodiment and display in the institutional landscape Papers/presentations will be in English. The organisers propose that the papers from this seminar might form the basis for an edited book on the didactic landscape.
Date: sept 2017.
OXFORD
Maison Française d'oxford
GREEN WALLS, to be or not to be
A study day on green walls, vertical planting and living walls : forms, uses and good practices
See programme PDF attached
William Beckford
the elusive Orientalist
Volume: OSE 2016:11
Series editor: Gregory S. Brown
Author: Laurent Châtel
Date of publication: November 2016
Pagination: xvi + 268 pp., 8 ill., pb (broché)
Price: £65 / €75 / $85
ISBN-13: 978-0-7294-1188-2
Description: The writer and aesthete William Beckford (1760-1844) was a fascinating embodiment of the sublime egotist. Because of his extravagance, fabulousness and enigmatic nature, biographers have alternately presented him as an object of fascination or dismissed him as an insolent and deceptive character. Laurent Châtel provides an innovative reassessment of Beckford by presenting ‘elusiveness’ as the defining motif for understanding both the writer and his work.
Laurent Châtel opens his analysis by exploring the author’s fascination for the East, which informed several of his multi-layered works such as ‘The long story’, 'Suite des contes arabes’ and Vathek. By reconnecting him with the eighteenth-century aesthetic of translation and reappropriation of the Arabian nights, Châtel shows how Beckford’s Orientalism was key to his elusiveness and presents him as a fabulist who supplemented existing tales with touches of wonder and horror. In further chapters Châtel explores his lack of recognition as a man of letters – whether desired or not. Through an analysis of the arguably limited reception of Beckford’s works, in particular in France both during his lifetime and immediately after his death, we see how his deliberate elusiveness of style was constitutive of his identity. In his groundbreaking repositioning of Beckford, Laurent Châtel provides a new framework for further explorations of his work and their rich overlay of intertextual presences.
‘Laurent Châtel engages perceptively with the shifting borders of translation, revisioning, interpretation and imitation, in ways that illuminate continuing issues around Orientalist scholarship. This is an admirable, luxuriantly detailed and most rewarding study.’
Marina Warner, author of Stranger magic: charmed states and the ‘Arabian nights’
List of illustrations
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Orientalist Beckford
1. Turning East: Orientalist learning, aesthetics and taste
2. ‘As Indian as ever’: ‘The long story’
3. ‘Sparks of Orientalism’: Beckford’s ‘children of the Nights’
4. ‘Such a valuable morsel of Orientalism’: Beckford’s Vathek and its Episodes
Part II. In search of the author: authorised translations and translated authorship
5. ‘[N]os bons literateurs ont paru meme ignorer leur existence.’ Invisible in France? The French reception of Beckford, 1760-1876
6. ‘Inconnu dans les annales de la terre’: the missed fortune of Beckford
Conclusion: Beckford re-Oriented
Appendix A. Beckford’s Orientalist collection of books, prints and drawings
Appendix B. ‘Beckford Orientalising’: dreaming of Father Urreta’s Ethiopian underworld
Bibliography
Index
An International Symposium Organized by the Research Group Histoire et Dynamique des Espaces Anglophones (HDEA), Université Paris-Sorbonne
Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France
November 6-7, 2015
Friday November 6, Université Paris-Sorbonne,
Historical Sorbonne building (1, rue Victor Cousin, 75005 Paris), Room J636
9:00-9:15 am
Registration of participants
9:15-9:30 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks by Pascal Aquien, Vice-President of the Scientific Council, Université Paris-Sorbonne
9:30-10:30 am
Session 1 – Situating and Materializing Leisure (I): The Territories of Leisure [Chair: Aurélie Godet, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7]
Elsa Devienne, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre:
“Building a Beach for the Modern City: Urban Planning and the Making of New York and Los Angeles’ Beaches (1930s-1970s)”
Nicolas Martin-Breteau, Université de Lille 3:
“‘Patient and Tolerant to an Extreme’: The Desegregation of Baltimore's Leisure Areas in the “Long” Civil Rights Movement (1930s-1950s)”
10:30-11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 am
Session 2 – Situating and Materializing Leisure (II): Bodies at Play [Chair: Hélène Quanquin, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Lawrence McDonnell, Department of History, Iowa State University:
“Dancing Up a Storm: Elite Leisure and Gender Confusion in the Old South (1840-1850)”
Olaf Stieglitz, Dept History, University of Cologne, Germany:
“Debs & Surf Queens – Swimming and Modern Female Bodies in the United States, 1900s – 1930s”
12:00 am -2:00 pm: Conference Lunch
2:00-3:00 pm: Keynote Address [Chair: Laurent Châtel]
Emma Griffin, University of East Anglia:
“Remaking Leisure for the Modern World: Changing Practices 1750-1914”
3:00-4:30 pm:
Session 3 – The Politics of Leisure (I): Engagement, Resistance, Repression [Chair: Paul Schor, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7]
Sarah Pickard, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle:
“Serious Leisure, Serious Pleasure: Applying the Serious Leisure Model to Political Participation Among Young People in Britain”
Michael Stewart Foley, University of Groningen:
“We Are the One: Subcultural Leisure and Politics in Early San Francisco Punk”
Peter Marquis, Université de Rouen:
“The Politics of Leisure: Baseball and Anti-Communist Containment in Cold War Brooklyn”
4:30-5:00 pm: Coffee Break
5:00-6:30 pm:
Session 4 – The Politics of Leisure (II): Boundaries of Nationalism [Chair: Franziska Heimburger, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Karine Chambefort, Université Paris-Est Créteil:
“Outdoor Leisure Activities in Simon Roberts’s We English Photographic Project: Re-Writing Landscape and Nation”
Kristin Hass, Department of American Culture, University of Michigan:
“Militarism and Tourism in 21st Century Washington: High Stakes Deep Play on the National Mall”
Jeremy R. Kinney, Curator, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum:
“The British Sports Car and American Leisure, 1945-1985”
6:30 pm: Cocktail
Saturday Nov. 7, Petit Amphithéâtre,
Maison de la Recherche (28 rue Serpente, 75005 Paris)
9:00-9:30 am:
Registration
9:30-10:30 am:
Session 5 – Communities of Leisure [Chair: Pierre Lurbe, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Mathilde Bertrand, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne:
“‘Making the Art of Fun Freely Available’: Leisure Practices as Tools of Emancipation in Community art Experiments in Britain in the 1970s”
Arnaud Page, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“‘Work or Leisure?’: The Politics of Allotment Gardening in Great Britain”
10:30-11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 am
Session 6 – Institutions of Leisure [Chair: Nathalie Caron, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Claire Delen, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“Organised Leisure at Huntley and Palmers’ Biscuit Factory (1841-1976)”
Emmanuel Roudaut, Sciences Po Lille:
“Tote Clubs, Dog Tracks and Newspaper Competitions: Moral Panics and Popular Leisure in Interwar Britain”
Thibaut Clément, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“‘Adults Are Only Grown Up Kids Anyway’: Play and its Practical Uses at the Happiest Place on Earth”
12:30-2:00 pm: Conference Lunch
2:00-3:00 pm: Keynote Address [Chair: Andrew Diamond, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Victoria Wolcott, University of Buffalo, New York:
“Dangerous Play: Racial Conflict in Twentieth-Century Urban Amusements”
3:00-4:40 pm
Session 7 – Playing Indian, Indians at Play [Chair: Marine Le Puloch, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7]
Fabrice Delsahut, ESPE Paris 4:
“Du baggataway au Lacrosse. Un exemple de la sportivisation des jeux amérindiens”
Suzanne Berthier-Foglar, Université Stendhal – Grenoble 3:
“Indian ‘Detours’ in New Mexico (19th – 20th century): A Primitivist Pastime or a Tool of Integration?”
Mathieu Charle, EHESS-LIAS
“Public Festivals, Private Rituals: An analysis of Contemporary American Indian Pow-Wows of the Northwest”
4:30-5:00 pm: Coffee Break
5:00-6:30
Session 8 – The Technologies of Leisure [Chair: Divina Frau-Meigs, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle]
Yves Figueiredo, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“The Uses of Photography and the Definition of Leisure Practices in California and the West (1880s – 1910s)”
Pierre-Louis Patoine, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle:
“Leisure and Technical Milieu in the 21st century: Inhabiting Fantasy Worlds through Video Game Playing and Literary Reading”
Olivier Frayssé, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“Leisure in the Age of the Internet: Solution and Dissolution”
8:00 pm: Conference Dinner
The evening will begin with a tour of the current Hestercombe Gallery exhibitions ‘Arcadia’ the culmination of Bayliss’ summerlong residency and ‘Wish You
Were Here?’ artist postcards from Jeremy Cooper’s collection.
In the subsequent talk Bayliss reveals his conflicting feelings about becoming a landscape painter. He discusses the limitations and freedoms of a romantic or picturesque approach to landscape, in relation to both tourist art in the South West and the landscape gardens at Hestercombe. Through considering the work made during his residency Bayliss also describes his exploration of personal and artistic identity through painterly connection to place.
Châtel will follow with a talk ‘In and Out of Landscape – Eighteenth-Century Virtual Reality Experiences’ which describes how tricky the notion of the ‘picturesque’ was in the eighteenth century. This is not with a pedantic academic intent at linguistic clarification, but with a view to transferring us back to eighteenth century visual and mental habits, showing how men and women at the time used and perceived the picturesque.
Châtel will point to the new technologies which today enable us to digitally obtain an experience of ‘virtual reality’ not altogether alien to their own experiences of imagination, fancy and virtuality within gardens back in the 1750s, such as at Hestercombe.
A discussion chaired by Hestercombe curator Tim Martin will conclude the evening.
FOR FURTHER DETAILS, click
Florence André, Richard Bisgrove, Brent Elliott, Martin Sirot
+ William Robinson Festival, Gravetye Manor, July 4th - visit
entre matière
et esprit, culture matérielle et culture immatérielle
7 & 8 JUIN 2023
UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE - MUSÉE DU LOUVRE-LENS
Co-directed by Laurent Brassart, Laurent Châtel, Emily-Anne Pepy, Anouchka Vasak
MATERIAL AND VISUAL CULTURE
M.A and Doctoral Study Programme - open to all
ENHANCED PERCEPTION- BEYOND FIXED IMAGES AND HERITAGE
Table des matières voir ici: http://pur-editions.fr/couvertures/1615451477_doc.pdf
Introduction: http://pur-editions.fr/couvertures/1615451465_doc.pdf
Illustration: En couverture : John Constable, The Hay Wain, dit aussi Une charrette de foin traversant un gué au pied d'une ferme, paysage, 1821, huile sur toile, 130,2 × 185,4 cm, Londres, The National Gallery. 9 782753 580367 ISBN 978-2-7535-8036-7 28 €
https://universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/books/e/10.22599/CapabilityBrown/
Chapter 13:
Laurent Châtel and Monique Mosser
Brown Invisible in France? The French Perception and Reception of Eighteenth-Century British Gardens -
direct link:
https://universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/site/books/10.22599/CapabilityBrown/read/?loc=020.xhtml
dans l'ouvrage JARDINS EN IMAGES - sur l'interaction dans l'histoire du jardin avec ses images - culture visuelle, manière de voir, représentations.
Direction: Michael Jakob & Jacques Berchtold.
MétisPresse
2021
36 euros
Fancy in the eighteenth century was part of a rich semantic network, connecting wit, whimsicality, erotic desire, spontaneity, deviation from norms and triviality. It was also a contentious term, signifying excess, oddness and irrationality, liable to offend taste, reason and morals. This collection of essays foregrounds fancy – and its close synonym, caprice – as a distinct strand of the imagination in the period. As a prevalent, coherent and enduring concept in aesthetics and visual culture, it deserves a more prominent place in scholarly understanding than it has hitherto occupied. Fancy is here understood as a type of creative output that deviated from rules and relished artistic freedom. It was also a mode of audience response, entailing a high degree of imaginative engagement with playful, quirky artworks, generating pleasure, desire or anxiety. Emphasizing commonalities between visual productions in different media from diverse locations, the authors interrogate and celebrate the expressive freedom of fancy in European visual culture. Topics include: the seductive fictions of the fancy picture, Fragonard and galanterie, fancy in drawing manuals, pattern books and popular prints, fans and fancy goods, chinoiserie, excess and virtuality in garden design, Canaletto's British 'capricci', urban design in Madrid, and Goya's 'Caprichos'.
CALL FOR PAPERS
To date, scholarship on the history of gardens has tended to focus on private and élite gardens and only recently have academics turned their attention to the landscapes of institutions. (Hickman, 2013; Chance, 2017). While the genealogy of institutional landscapes, with their functional and metaphorical allusions to divine order, political power and collective identity have been traced to Antiquity (Von Stackelberg, 2013) the institutional landscape, a didactic space which became more visible and diverse with the growth of social and political institutions such as public parks, museums, asylums and factories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has not so far been examined comparatively and culturally. In this one-day seminar we will study a variety of institutional landscapes-factories, hospitals and asylums, public houses, museums, community gardens-to discuss the ideologies implicit in their design, use and afterlife. Relevant topics might include, but are not limited to: • Design and the performance of democracy and citizenship in the institutional landscape • Individual and collective identity in public gardens • The institutional landscape and public ritual • The institutional landscape as a contested space • The institutional landscape and public history • Institutional landscapes as heterotopias • Place identification and branding in the public landscape • Embodiment and display in the institutional landscape Papers/presentations will be in English. The organisers propose that the papers from this seminar might form the basis for an edited book on the didactic landscape.
Date: sept 2017.
OXFORD
Maison Française d'oxford
GREEN WALLS, to be or not to be
A study day on green walls, vertical planting and living walls : forms, uses and good practices
See programme PDF attached
William Beckford
the elusive Orientalist
Volume: OSE 2016:11
Series editor: Gregory S. Brown
Author: Laurent Châtel
Date of publication: November 2016
Pagination: xvi + 268 pp., 8 ill., pb (broché)
Price: £65 / €75 / $85
ISBN-13: 978-0-7294-1188-2
Description: The writer and aesthete William Beckford (1760-1844) was a fascinating embodiment of the sublime egotist. Because of his extravagance, fabulousness and enigmatic nature, biographers have alternately presented him as an object of fascination or dismissed him as an insolent and deceptive character. Laurent Châtel provides an innovative reassessment of Beckford by presenting ‘elusiveness’ as the defining motif for understanding both the writer and his work.
Laurent Châtel opens his analysis by exploring the author’s fascination for the East, which informed several of his multi-layered works such as ‘The long story’, 'Suite des contes arabes’ and Vathek. By reconnecting him with the eighteenth-century aesthetic of translation and reappropriation of the Arabian nights, Châtel shows how Beckford’s Orientalism was key to his elusiveness and presents him as a fabulist who supplemented existing tales with touches of wonder and horror. In further chapters Châtel explores his lack of recognition as a man of letters – whether desired or not. Through an analysis of the arguably limited reception of Beckford’s works, in particular in France both during his lifetime and immediately after his death, we see how his deliberate elusiveness of style was constitutive of his identity. In his groundbreaking repositioning of Beckford, Laurent Châtel provides a new framework for further explorations of his work and their rich overlay of intertextual presences.
‘Laurent Châtel engages perceptively with the shifting borders of translation, revisioning, interpretation and imitation, in ways that illuminate continuing issues around Orientalist scholarship. This is an admirable, luxuriantly detailed and most rewarding study.’
Marina Warner, author of Stranger magic: charmed states and the ‘Arabian nights’
List of illustrations
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Orientalist Beckford
1. Turning East: Orientalist learning, aesthetics and taste
2. ‘As Indian as ever’: ‘The long story’
3. ‘Sparks of Orientalism’: Beckford’s ‘children of the Nights’
4. ‘Such a valuable morsel of Orientalism’: Beckford’s Vathek and its Episodes
Part II. In search of the author: authorised translations and translated authorship
5. ‘[N]os bons literateurs ont paru meme ignorer leur existence.’ Invisible in France? The French reception of Beckford, 1760-1876
6. ‘Inconnu dans les annales de la terre’: the missed fortune of Beckford
Conclusion: Beckford re-Oriented
Appendix A. Beckford’s Orientalist collection of books, prints and drawings
Appendix B. ‘Beckford Orientalising’: dreaming of Father Urreta’s Ethiopian underworld
Bibliography
Index
An International Symposium Organized by the Research Group Histoire et Dynamique des Espaces Anglophones (HDEA), Université Paris-Sorbonne
Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France
November 6-7, 2015
Friday November 6, Université Paris-Sorbonne,
Historical Sorbonne building (1, rue Victor Cousin, 75005 Paris), Room J636
9:00-9:15 am
Registration of participants
9:15-9:30 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks by Pascal Aquien, Vice-President of the Scientific Council, Université Paris-Sorbonne
9:30-10:30 am
Session 1 – Situating and Materializing Leisure (I): The Territories of Leisure [Chair: Aurélie Godet, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7]
Elsa Devienne, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre:
“Building a Beach for the Modern City: Urban Planning and the Making of New York and Los Angeles’ Beaches (1930s-1970s)”
Nicolas Martin-Breteau, Université de Lille 3:
“‘Patient and Tolerant to an Extreme’: The Desegregation of Baltimore's Leisure Areas in the “Long” Civil Rights Movement (1930s-1950s)”
10:30-11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 am
Session 2 – Situating and Materializing Leisure (II): Bodies at Play [Chair: Hélène Quanquin, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Lawrence McDonnell, Department of History, Iowa State University:
“Dancing Up a Storm: Elite Leisure and Gender Confusion in the Old South (1840-1850)”
Olaf Stieglitz, Dept History, University of Cologne, Germany:
“Debs & Surf Queens – Swimming and Modern Female Bodies in the United States, 1900s – 1930s”
12:00 am -2:00 pm: Conference Lunch
2:00-3:00 pm: Keynote Address [Chair: Laurent Châtel]
Emma Griffin, University of East Anglia:
“Remaking Leisure for the Modern World: Changing Practices 1750-1914”
3:00-4:30 pm:
Session 3 – The Politics of Leisure (I): Engagement, Resistance, Repression [Chair: Paul Schor, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7]
Sarah Pickard, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle:
“Serious Leisure, Serious Pleasure: Applying the Serious Leisure Model to Political Participation Among Young People in Britain”
Michael Stewart Foley, University of Groningen:
“We Are the One: Subcultural Leisure and Politics in Early San Francisco Punk”
Peter Marquis, Université de Rouen:
“The Politics of Leisure: Baseball and Anti-Communist Containment in Cold War Brooklyn”
4:30-5:00 pm: Coffee Break
5:00-6:30 pm:
Session 4 – The Politics of Leisure (II): Boundaries of Nationalism [Chair: Franziska Heimburger, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Karine Chambefort, Université Paris-Est Créteil:
“Outdoor Leisure Activities in Simon Roberts’s We English Photographic Project: Re-Writing Landscape and Nation”
Kristin Hass, Department of American Culture, University of Michigan:
“Militarism and Tourism in 21st Century Washington: High Stakes Deep Play on the National Mall”
Jeremy R. Kinney, Curator, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum:
“The British Sports Car and American Leisure, 1945-1985”
6:30 pm: Cocktail
Saturday Nov. 7, Petit Amphithéâtre,
Maison de la Recherche (28 rue Serpente, 75005 Paris)
9:00-9:30 am:
Registration
9:30-10:30 am:
Session 5 – Communities of Leisure [Chair: Pierre Lurbe, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Mathilde Bertrand, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne:
“‘Making the Art of Fun Freely Available’: Leisure Practices as Tools of Emancipation in Community art Experiments in Britain in the 1970s”
Arnaud Page, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“‘Work or Leisure?’: The Politics of Allotment Gardening in Great Britain”
10:30-11:00 am: Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 am
Session 6 – Institutions of Leisure [Chair: Nathalie Caron, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Claire Delen, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“Organised Leisure at Huntley and Palmers’ Biscuit Factory (1841-1976)”
Emmanuel Roudaut, Sciences Po Lille:
“Tote Clubs, Dog Tracks and Newspaper Competitions: Moral Panics and Popular Leisure in Interwar Britain”
Thibaut Clément, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“‘Adults Are Only Grown Up Kids Anyway’: Play and its Practical Uses at the Happiest Place on Earth”
12:30-2:00 pm: Conference Lunch
2:00-3:00 pm: Keynote Address [Chair: Andrew Diamond, Université Paris-Sorbonne]
Victoria Wolcott, University of Buffalo, New York:
“Dangerous Play: Racial Conflict in Twentieth-Century Urban Amusements”
3:00-4:40 pm
Session 7 – Playing Indian, Indians at Play [Chair: Marine Le Puloch, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7]
Fabrice Delsahut, ESPE Paris 4:
“Du baggataway au Lacrosse. Un exemple de la sportivisation des jeux amérindiens”
Suzanne Berthier-Foglar, Université Stendhal – Grenoble 3:
“Indian ‘Detours’ in New Mexico (19th – 20th century): A Primitivist Pastime or a Tool of Integration?”
Mathieu Charle, EHESS-LIAS
“Public Festivals, Private Rituals: An analysis of Contemporary American Indian Pow-Wows of the Northwest”
4:30-5:00 pm: Coffee Break
5:00-6:30
Session 8 – The Technologies of Leisure [Chair: Divina Frau-Meigs, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle]
Yves Figueiredo, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“The Uses of Photography and the Definition of Leisure Practices in California and the West (1880s – 1910s)”
Pierre-Louis Patoine, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle:
“Leisure and Technical Milieu in the 21st century: Inhabiting Fantasy Worlds through Video Game Playing and Literary Reading”
Olivier Frayssé, Université Paris-Sorbonne:
“Leisure in the Age of the Internet: Solution and Dissolution”
8:00 pm: Conference Dinner
The evening will begin with a tour of the current Hestercombe Gallery exhibitions ‘Arcadia’ the culmination of Bayliss’ summerlong residency and ‘Wish You
Were Here?’ artist postcards from Jeremy Cooper’s collection.
In the subsequent talk Bayliss reveals his conflicting feelings about becoming a landscape painter. He discusses the limitations and freedoms of a romantic or picturesque approach to landscape, in relation to both tourist art in the South West and the landscape gardens at Hestercombe. Through considering the work made during his residency Bayliss also describes his exploration of personal and artistic identity through painterly connection to place.
Châtel will follow with a talk ‘In and Out of Landscape – Eighteenth-Century Virtual Reality Experiences’ which describes how tricky the notion of the ‘picturesque’ was in the eighteenth century. This is not with a pedantic academic intent at linguistic clarification, but with a view to transferring us back to eighteenth century visual and mental habits, showing how men and women at the time used and perceived the picturesque.
Châtel will point to the new technologies which today enable us to digitally obtain an experience of ‘virtual reality’ not altogether alien to their own experiences of imagination, fancy and virtuality within gardens back in the 1750s, such as at Hestercombe.
A discussion chaired by Hestercombe curator Tim Martin will conclude the evening.
FOR FURTHER DETAILS, click
Florence André, Richard Bisgrove, Brent Elliott, Martin Sirot
+ William Robinson Festival, Gravetye Manor, July 4th - visit
This study day will celebrate the discovery of a recipe book at Hestercombe as part of the BEING HUMAN FESTIVAL. It will explore issues directly related to gardens which are often examined divorced from the garden itself - cooking, curing, and caring.
No prior registration needed, except for lunch.
Join in and sign in on the website of the brand new Centre for Garden and Landscape studies:
http://www.hestercombe.com/whats-on/events-and-activities/179-healthy-minds-study-day/event_details
Fancy in the eighteenth century was part of a rich semantic network, connecting wit, whimsicality, erotic desire, spontaneity, deviation from norms and triviality. It was also a contentious term, signifying excess, oddness and irrationality, liable to offend taste, reason and morals. This collection of essays foregrounds fancy – and its close synonym, caprice – as a distinct strand of the imagination in the period. As a prevalent, coherent and enduring concept in aesthetics and visual culture, it deserves a more prominent place in scholarly understanding than it has hitherto occupied. Fancy is here understood as a type of creative output that deviated from rules and relished artistic freedom. It was also a mode of audience response, entailing a high degree of imaginative engagement with playful, quirky artworks, generating pleasure, desire or anxiety. Emphasizing commonalities between visual productions in different media from diverse locations, the authors interrogate and celebrate the expressive freedom of fancy in European visual culture. Topics include: the seductive fictions of the fancy picture, Fragonard and galanterie, fancy in drawing manuals, pattern books and popular prints, fans and fancy goods, chinoiserie, excess and virtuality in garden design, Canaletto's British 'capricci', urban design in Madrid, and Goya's 'Caprichos'.
William Beckford
the elusive Orientalist
Volume: OSE 2016:11
Series editor: Gregory S. Brown
Author: Laurent Châtel
Date of publication: November 2016
Pagination: xvi + 268 pp., 8 ill., pb (broché)
Price: £65 / €75 / $85
ISBN-13: 978-0-7294-1188-2
Description: The writer and aesthete William Beckford (1760-1844) was a fascinating embodiment of the sublime egotist. Because of his extravagance, fabulousness and enigmatic nature, biographers have alternately presented him as an object of fascination or dismissed him as an insolent and deceptive character. Laurent Châtel provides an innovative reassessment of Beckford by presenting ‘elusiveness’ as the defining motif for understanding both the writer and his work.
Laurent Châtel opens his analysis by exploring the author’s fascination for the East, which informed several of his multi-layered works such as ‘The long story’, 'Suite des contes arabes’ and Vathek. By reconnecting him with the eighteenth-century aesthetic of translation and reappropriation of the Arabian nights, Châtel shows how Beckford’s Orientalism was key to his elusiveness and presents him as a fabulist who supplemented existing tales with touches of wonder and horror. In further chapters Châtel explores his lack of recognition as a man of letters – whether desired or not. Through an analysis of the arguably limited reception of Beckford’s works, in particular in France both during his lifetime and immediately after his death, we see how his deliberate elusiveness of style was constitutive of his identity. In his groundbreaking repositioning of Beckford, Laurent Châtel provides a new framework for further explorations of his work and their rich overlay of intertextual presences.
‘Laurent Châtel engages perceptively with the shifting borders of translation, revisioning, interpretation and imitation, in ways that illuminate continuing issues around Orientalist scholarship. This is an admirable, luxuriantly detailed and most rewarding study.’
Marina Warner, author of Stranger magic: charmed states and the ‘Arabian nights’
See Link: https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Scheherazade_s_Children/xfU_AQAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=sheherazade%27s+children+warner&printsec=frontcover
This issue of Intermediality brings together texts that offer critical reflections on the intermedial and interartial relations within the garden, and the way they shed light on – and even define – the relations that individuals have with each other and with the garden. Here, the intermedial approach intends to restore the collective and collaborative character of gardening and aims to point out the heuristic virtues of the study of the garden in general, notably on an ethical and social level. Methods from history and art history, literary history, urban planning, film and digital studies, and botany are represented, questioned and sometimes combined. The idea is not new: it had already occurred to Plato and his friends, gathered around the sciences and the arts, as they walked under the shady plane trees of the Academy’s gardens.