Archives de mercredi 29 mars 2006
Ceux qui s'émeutent...
I want some more !
Anti-CPE demonstrations, Paris March 2006
The evening arrived; the boys took their places. The master, in his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons. The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each ...
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London Perceived(1962)
with text by V.S. Pritchett
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Evelyn Hofer photographie depuis le milieu des années 1940. Son travail est intimement lié à l’illustration de livres à la fin des années 50 et 60 pour des auteurs reconnus comme Marie McCarthy et V.S. Pritchett, évoquant inoubliablement l'atmosphère de places comme Dublin, Londres et New York.
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The Guggenheim Museum
in ...
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le samedi 25 mars 2006 [n° 1134] Poetry
Madonna mia
A lily-girl, not made for this world's pain,
With brown, soft hair close braided by her ears,
And longing eyes half veiled by slumberous tears
Like bluest water seen through mists of rain:
Pale cheeks whereon no love hath left its stain,
Red underlip drawn in for fear of love,
And white throat, whiter than the silvered dove,
Through whose wan marble creeps one purple vein.
Yet, ...
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« Commandées par les exploiteurs pour distraire les exploités, les cartes postales ne constituent pas un art populaire. Tout au plus, la petite monnaie de l’art tout court et de la poésie. Mais cette petite monnaie donne parfois l’idée de l’or. »
Éluard, Paul, Les plus belles cartes postales, Œuvres, T. II, éd. Gallimard, coll. De la Pléiade, Paris, 1968, ...
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le mercredi 22 mars 2006 [n° 1151] Art
Executive of the future
In his introduction to the section titled "Machinalia" in his book As I See, Boris Artzybasheff says, "I am thrilled by machinery's force, precision and willingness to work at any task, no matter how arduous or monotonous it may be. I would rather watch a thousand ton dredge dig a canal than see it done by ...
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