national museum of women in arts
Extraits
Non classé
Bonoure and Buxum
If married in church, medieval women vowed before God and their husbands to be ‘bonoure and buxum', that is, meek and obedient in bed and at table. This book is a study of wives in a variety of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century romance, fabliaux, cycle drama, life-writing, lyrics and hagiography. The volume examines key moments that defined life as a married woman : her eligibility to become a wife, the wedding ceremony, her conjugal rights and duties, childbirth and her contribution to the family economy. The book explores the way in which the literary representation of wives is in dialogue with discourses that strove to construct and regulate the role of ‘wife'; canon and secular law, marriage liturgy, medical treatises on the female body, sermons, manuals of spiritual instruction, biblical paradigms, conduct books and misogamous writings. Moreover, the volume examines the possibilities for subversion of these paradigms by listening to literary wives speak both within and against these discourses. Real women's attitudes, and strategies of subversion, are woven into the volume throughout, as recorded in church and manorial court records, in their wills and in their writing.
08/2006
Comics
Nomen Omen Tome 1 : Total Eclipse of the Heart
Dans le monde de Nomen Omen, il est plus important de voir avec son coeur qu'avec ses yeux. Becky, Rebecca Kumar de son vrai nom, est une jeune New-Yorkaise plutôt dégourdie et geek qui a deux mères attentionnées et deux chiens. Elle est atteinte d'achromatopsie, ce qui signifie qu'elle est incapable de voir les couleurs. Mais cela ne l'empêche pas de poster des photos sur son compte Instagram _nomen.omen_. La nuit de son vingt et unième anniversaire, entourée de ses amis, la jeune femme découvre bien malgré elle que le monde est plus vaste qu'elle ne l'avait jamais imaginé...
01/2020
Non classé
Portraits of Women in Selected Works of Gabriele Reuter
Known primarily for the novel, Aus guter Familie, Gabriele Reuter has not yet been accorded the attention she deserves for her contribution to German literature in general and women's writing in particular. The precisely observed portraits of women in the novels discussed in this volume allow us to experience the complex interplay of societal norms and individual needs which shape feminine existence. Among the themes treated are misguided motherhood, the virtue of the unwed mother, the conflict between the will to be and the need to love and be loved, woman's role in the political sphere and a comparison of womanhood in two generations. One of the enduring pleasures of reading Reuter is the rich variety of female characters from the early part of the twentieth century.
12/1987
Mouvements artistiques
Look Close, Think Far. Art at the Ackland
This richly illustrated volume introduces one of America's finest university art museums - one whose directors, curators, donors, and patrons have left a remarkable legacy, a museum collection that encourages us all to "look close, think far. " The selection of over 280 highlights is presented with brief commentaries and an essay that traces the growth of the Ackland Art Museum's outstanding collection. The Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the United States' most distinguished public university art museums. Founded in 1958, it now houses over 20, 000 works of art, covering some 5, 000 years of cultures from around the globe. "Look Close, Think Far" is the tagline of the Ackland, informing everything from the dynamic and varied program of special exhibitions to ambitious interpretation, education, and outreach activities. It applies especially strongly to the museum's extensive permanent collection. Although an integral part of the oldest public university in the United States, the Ackland is a relatively young institution. Now approaching its sixty-fifth year, it has become the proud steward of over 20, 000 works of art from an impressively broad range of world cultures and time periods. The Museum is known for its special strengths in art of the European tradition, with very strong holdings in prints and drawings ; the arts of Asia, and especially China, Japan, and India ; a small but fine collection of classical art from Africa ; and recent and contemporary art. This publication showcases a cross-section though the diverse collection, with 283 works, giving an impression of the Ackland's permanent collection that is true to its character, representative of its breadth, and indicative of its quality. The essay gives special attention to the early stages and the less obvious, more idiosyncratic moments that have contributed to the Ackland's personality and individuality. The approach taken by the editor Peter Nisbet, deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Ackland, differs from most conventional volumes of museum collection highlights in several refreshing ways. Instead of separating works along the lines of curatorial departments, the arrangement emphasizes the unity of the collection by merging works from different cultures. These are presented in a largely chronological sequence, but one that surprises by starting with the present and extending back in time. Within this order, works of art are deliberately paired across individual page openings, to stimulate visual attention, reflective thinking, and sometimes maybe just a smile.
08/2022
Comics divers
Nomen Omen Tome 2 : Wicked Game
Atteinte d'achromatopsie, Becky Kumar est incapable de voir les couleurs. Sa vie a basculé le soir de son vingt et unième anniversaire, lorsqu'une ombre lui a arraché le coeur. Mais Becky n'est pas morte, bien au contraire. Elle a découvert que de puissants êtres ancestraux vivent en nous. Notre monde est imprégné de magie, et ce savoir est réservé à un cercle restreint. La jeune femme sait désormais qu'elle est une sorcière !
02/2021
Beaux arts
Tiepolo in Milan. The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto
Tiepolo in Milan : The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto brings together preparatory drawings and paintings, as well as documentary photographs, to commemorate an extraordinary fresco cycle by the Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Painted for Palazzo Archinto in Milan, the frescoes were destroyed in a bombing during World War II. The catalogue accompanies an exhibition at The Frick Collection. In 1730-31, Tiepolo undertook his first significant project outside the Veneto, frescoes for five ceilings in Palazzo Archinto in Milan. The paintings were commissioned by Count Carlo Archinto (1670-1732), likely in honor of the marriage of his son, Filippo, to Giulia Borromeo. Tiepolo's mythological and allegorical scenes-Triumph of Arts and Sciences ; Apollo and Phaëton ; Perseus and Andromeda ; Juno, Fortune, and Venus ; and Nobility-were painted in some of the largest rooms of the palazzo. Unfortunately, the palazzo was bombed during World War II and its interior completely destroyed. Only a series of black-and-white photographs, taken between 1897 and the late 1930s, preserves the frescoes' appearance, but a number of preparatory drawings and paintings provide precious information, including three painted sketches (Triumph of Arts and Sciences, the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon ; Apollo and Phaëton, Los Angeles County Museum ; and Perseus and Andromeda, The Frick Collection). Three drawings from the British Museum in London, the Museo Civico in Trieste, and the Sinebrychoff Art Museum in Helsinki are the only related graphic works. These-along with other drawings and prints by Tiepolo and some books- have been reunited for the first time in order to bring to life these extraordinary works of art. On view at The Frick Collection from April 16 to July 14, 2019, the exhibition is curated by Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick, with Andrea Tomezzoli, Professor at the University of Padua, and Denis Ton, Curator of the Musei Civici in Belluno. Included in the publication are essays on Tiepolo's work in Palazzo Archinto (Salomon), on the role of the frescoes in Tiepolo's career (Tomezzoli), on the intellectual world of the Archinto family (Ton), and on the architectural history of the palace (Kluzer).
04/2019
Non classé
Brides on Sale
Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them "Taiwan's Fifth Ethnic Group". This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked to the forces of globalization. Traditional ideas of marriage, such as the belief that a woman "marries out" of her natal family to be dependent upon her husband and his family, and the idea that a man should "marry down" to a woman of a lesser social and economic status, have not kept pace with changes in women's educational and career opportunities. How these relationships are formed, how they impact gendered understandings of women and men, how families are constituted and relationships developed, and how they affect the children of these families and their education, are the issues explored in this book. It breaks new ground in our understanding of transnational and cross-border marriages by looking at the long-term effects of such marriages on communities, families, and individuals.
04/2015
Non classé
A linguistic picture of women's position in society
A discussion of English and Polish gender systems, generic words, forms of address, referring expressions and other topics, provides evidence that in these two languages males and females are not treated equally. The main concern of this book is linguistic sexism. The data indicate that speakers of both languages treat male as the norm, attribute less desirable qualities to the speech and behaviour of women, stereotype women more than men, or simply make women linguistically invisible members of society.
12/1986
Beaux arts
Drawn to Life. Master Drawings from the Age of Rembrandt in the Peck Collection at the Ackland Art Museum
This beautifully illustrated catalogue presents a selection of exceptional seventeenth-century Dutch drawings from the Peck Collection in the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Featuring many previously unpublished and rarely exhibited works, the catalogue brings together examples by some of the best-known artists of the era such as Rembrandt, Jacques de Gheyn II, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and Frans van Mieris. The collection was donated to the museum in 2017 by the late Drs. Sheldon and Leena Peck. The transformative gift is comprised of over 130 largely seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch and Flemish drawings, establishing the Ackland as one of a handful of university art museums in the United States where northern European drawings can be studied in depth. Drawn to Life presents around 70 works from this exceptional and diverse group of drawings amassed by the Pecks over four decades. Featuring new research and fresh insights into seventeenth-century drawing practice, the catalogue and accompanying exhibition celebrates the creativity and technical skills of Dutch artists who explored the beauty of the natural world and the multifaceted aspects of humanity. The catalogue features a broad selection of scenes of everyday life, landscapes, biblical and historical scenes, portraits, and preparatory studies, forming a dynamic and representative group of Dutch drawings made by some of the most outstanding artists of the period, including Abraham Bloemaert, Jacob van Ruisdael, Esaias van de Velde, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Pieter Molijn, Aelbert Cuyp, Adriaen van Ostade, Ferdinand Bol, Nicolaes Maes, Jan Lievens, Gerard ter Borch, Adriaen van de Velde, Nicolaes Berchem, and Cornelis Dusart. Key sheets of remarkable quality by lesserknown artists such as Guillam Dubois, Herman Naiwincx, Willem Romeyn, and Jacob van der Ulft, also comprise a core strength of the collection, and serve as a testament to the visual acuity of the Pecks as collectors. At the heart of the Peck Collection are several sheets by Rembrandt, including the sublime Noli me Tangere ; a beautifully rendered late landscape, Canal and Boats with a Distant View of Amsterdam ; and the superbly charming Studies of Women and Children, which was the last of Rembrandt's seventeen known drawings with an inscription in his own hand to reach a public collection. Meticulously researched and written by Robert Fucci, Ph. D. , Drawn to Life introduces both scholars and drawings enthusiasts to the depth and beauty of the Peck Collection at the Ackland Art Museum.
10/2022
Histoire des sciences
Des images pour l'animal. Instruction visuelle et conservation des espèces dans l'Etat de New York (1869-1914)
L'Etat de New York occupa, à la fin du xixe siècle, un rôle central dans la croisade nationale pour la cause animale. Afin de sensibiliser la population à la conservation des espèces, les muséums américains repensèrent les collections et les expositions en les rendant populaires et éducatives. L'American Museum of Natural History fut l'un des principaux promoteurs de ces nouvelles images pour l'animal. L'Etat de New York occupa, à la fin du xixe siècle, un rôle central dans la croisade nationale pour la cause animale. Afin de sensibiliser la population à la conservation des espèces, les muséums américains repensèrent les collections et les expositions en les rendant populaires et éducatives. L'American Museum of Natural History fut l'un des principaux promoteurs de ces nouvelles images pour l'animal. Révélant l'importance de médiums mineurs, comme la photographie ornithologique ou la taxidermie, cette histoire du patrimoine scientifique est également celle d'un militantisme fondé sur la beauté du vivant, pour la protection des espèces.
05/2022
Comics Super-héros
Supergirl. Woman of Tomorrow
Kara Zor-El a vécu bien des aventures épiques mais elle cherche aujourd'hui un sens à son existence. Témoin de la destruction de sa planète, elle fut envoyée sur Terre avec pour mission de protéger un petit cousin qui finira par ne plus avoir besoin d'elle. A quoi tout cela a-t-il servi ? Où qu'elle aille, l'ombre de Superman semble la suivre jusqu'à la faire douter de sa propre légitimité. Perdue dans ses questionnements existentiels, Kara taquine la bouteille le soir de son 21e anniversaire lorsque sa trajectoire percute celle de Ruthye, jeune extraterrestre en quête de vengeance...
07/2022
Non classé
The Search for Lyonnesse
Although Mme de Lafayette is acknowledged as the founder of the modern novel, her precise legacy has been understood only in relation to male-authored texts. However, she wrote as a woman, addressing issues that concerned women of her day, particularly the problem of the apparent incompatibility of sexual fulfilment and the institution of marriage. This study seeks to identify how La Princesse de Clèves was interpreted by three of Mme de Lafayette's most talented women successors and to show how their more sombre and subversive view of society was mediated in works of fiction which have strong affinities with the contes de fées for which they are well known. The novels of Mlle Bernard, Mme d'Aulnoy and Mlle de La Force are significant, not simply for what they tell us about themselves as women writers but also for what they reveal about the origins of the eighteenth-century novel.
07/1999
Littérature érotique et sentim
Exile and Identity in Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women
In Exile and Identity in Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women, Karla P. Zepeda studies the experience of exile and its effects on identity in three autobiographies : In Place of Splendor by Constancia de la Mora, Memoria de la melancolía by María Teresa León, and Seis anos de mi vida by Federica Montseny. These three prominent Spanish women of the Second Republic became exiles at the conclusion of the Spanish Civil War due to the onset of the Francisco Franco regime. The political expatriation caused their relocation into various countries : the United States, France, Argentina, and Italy. The repositioning initiated a process of self-reinvention, as the women come in contact with social circumstances prompting new versions of self. Through their works, these women negotiate their identity in relation to the lost homeland and the new locale. Exile and Identity in Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women examines the diverse character of diaspora, the social transactions deployed in a variety of circumstances, and the self-negotiations elicited in social interactions. Identity proves to be an intentional re-creation of self, enacted in particular circumstances, and negotiated as a response to social conditions.
05/2012
Non classé
The German Effect on D.H. Lawrence and his Works 1885-1912
This study analyzes in depth the German effect upon D.H. Lawrence and his works from his birth in 1885 to his departure from England in 1912. German literary, philosophical and musical works had considerable impact on Lawrence's formation as an artist. They also influenced the creation of his own literary theory, entering his life concurrently with the three problems of class, woman and religion, which evolved into his major literary themes. The German effect is thus demonstrated to be the confirmation of Lawrence's strong tendency toward subjectivism in literary art : it strengthened his conviction that his art set him apart from all classes of society ; it encouraged the development of his view of women as the sexual, not the maternal, mediatrix to art ; and it fortified his denial of traditional Christianity and assisted his creation of his personal vitalistic creed.
12/1978
Policiers
Muséum
Au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, les éminences scientifiques sont en émoi : une météorite antérieure à la création du système solaire apporterait la preuve de l'origine extraterrestre de la vie. Les vieilles querelles resurgissent. L'homme est-il le produit accidentel de l'évolution ou le fruit d'un " dessein intelligent ", autrement dit, de Dieu ? Pour en avoir le cœur net, le directeur du Muséum fait appel à deux spécialistes : le paléontologue et géologue américain , Peter Osmond, athée convaincu et pourfendeur des thèses créationnistes, et l'Italien Marcello Magnani, astrophysicien dépêché par le Vatican. La sémillante conservatrice Léopoldine Devaire, que la disparition d'une malle mystérieuse préoccupe, les secondera dans leurs travaux. Mais, dès son arrivée, Peter Osmond fait une découverte macabre : la biologiste Anita Elberg, affreusement disséquée, gît dans une pièce obscure... La police française ouvre l'enquête mais piétine. Et, pendant sept jours, les meurtres se succèdent... Osmond, Magnani et Léopoldine vont s'allier pour découvrir la vérité et mettre un terme aux actes barbares qui font trembler l'institution.
05/2006
Littérature française
My Ulster haven
1989, a 23-year-old French woman, an English student with a burdensome family background, leaves for Northern Ireland. She's on her way to start her French assistant job. She discovers this unknown part of Ireland, so underestimated and still plunged into civil war. There, she settles down and blossoms until she decides she actually wants to live there. An unexpected event will bring her back to France in 1991, but the link with this country will carry on until the Brexit announcement in 2016, and well beyond. An intimate journey to the core of Irish History, that reaches the depths of its wars, its men, its women, a journey at the very heart of the past. "A page of history - and of my history - is turning and it throws me off."
02/2022
Histoire et Philosophiesophie
THE WOMAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. Alice Stewart and the secrets of radiation
THE WOMAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH tells the engaging life story of the epidemiologist whose discoveries about radiation risk have revolutionized medical practice and challenged international nuclear safety standards. For more than forty years, Dr. Alice Stewart has warned that tow-dose radiation is far more dangerous than has been acknowledged. Although an outstanding scientist with more than 400 peer-reviewed papers to her name, her controversial work has only recently begun to receive significant attention, because it lies at the center of a political storm.
In the 1950s when doctors would routinely x-ray pregnant women, she began research at Oxford that led to the discovery that fetal x-rays doubted a child's risk of developing cancer. When she was in her seventies, she again astounded the scientific world by showing that the U.S. nuclear weapons industry was far more dangerous than commonly believed, a finding that embroiled her in an international controversy over radiation risk. In recent years, she has become one of a handful of independent scientists whose work is a lodestone to the antinuclear movement. In 1990, the New York Times called her "perhaps the Energy Department's most influential and feared scientific critic."
The Woman Who Knew Too Much traces Dr. Stewart's life and career from her early childhood in Sheffield and medical education at Cambridge to her research positions at Oxford and the University of Birmingham, where she still maintains an office. The book joins a growing number of biographies of pioneering women scientists such as Barbara McClintock, Rosalind Franklin, and Lise Meitner and will find a wide range of appreciative readers, including those interested in the history of science and technology and of the history of women in science and medicine. Activists and policymakers will also find the story of Alice Stewart compelling reading.
02/2000
Beaux arts
MoMA Highlights. 375 oeuvres du Museum of Modern Art, New York
Cette édition revue et augmentée présente une nouvelle sélection de la remarquable collection d'art moderne et contemporain du Musée. Parmi les 375 oeuvres représentées (chacune fidèlement reproduite et accompagnée d'un texte informatif), 170 objets et 120 artistes font leur première apparition dans Highlights, témoins de l'engagement permanent du MOMA envers l'art de notre temps - et l'exaltante diversité d'idées, de publics et de perspectives qu'il englobe.
10/2019
Gestion
L'art du Marketing to Women
Est-il possible de faire du marketing to women sans tomber dans les stéréotypes du gender marketing ? Loin du concept désuet de la ménagère de moins de 50 ans, le marketing, pour s'adresser aux femmes, doit mener une analyse fine de leurs attentes et préoccupations. En allant bien au-delà des marchés exclusivement réservés aux produits féminins, le marketing to women désigne l'ensemble des actions marketing ciblant les femmes, non seulement en tant que consommatrices finales mais aussi comme acheteuses et prescriptrices pour leur entourage. Illustré d'exemples de marques et appuyé par des interviews de professionnels, cet ouvrage répond aux questions essentielles : comment réaliser une segmentation pertinente de la population féminine par âges et événements de vie (adolescence, mariage, naissance, retraite...) ? Quelles sont les attentes des femmes vis-à-vis des marques ? Comment caractériser les comportements d'achats des femmes ? Comment sexuer une marque ? Quels sont les réseaux de distribution physiques et virtuels plébiscités par les femmes ? Quelles sont les tendances de communication efficaces auprès des femmes ? Comment faire des femmes des consommatrices fidèles ?
08/2014
Non classé
The Image of the Woman in the Works of Ingeborg Bachmann
In this study an analysis of the women characters, who play a dominant part in Bachmann's prose writings, was presented. The results suggested a complex but coherent image. It was found that although the characteristics of this image deserved the appellation "sex-specific" and "traditional" they were infused with new values : the values of individualism, of a specifically female identity and of particular intense personal freedom. It was also found that the theme of personal freedom underlies all motivations, conflicts and situations of tragedy of Bachmann's heroines. Finally, it was found that the image of the woman is not only part of a distinct female-male antithesis, which often assumes violent dimensions, but has a redeeming function for a de-humanized world.
09/1993
Comics divers
Nomen Omen Tome 3 : As the World Falls Down
La fin approche ! Tandis que Becky, la sorcière, et Taranis, le Roi, s'affrontent, le rituel de Medea change à jamais le monde de Nomen Omen. Survivre à des changements si drastiques sera difficile, et la tragédie peut survenir au détour de chaque page. La mort, la culpabilité et la vengeance seront-elles au bout du chemin ? Après tout, c'est la fin de tout ! Ultime chapitre de l'épopée de Marco B. Bucci et Jacopo Camagni, une production Panini Comics publiée aux Etats-Unis chez Image Comics. Une réussite dans le style très particulier de l'Urban Fantasy.
09/2021
Manga
Lustful Women
Le vrai plaisir ne se dévoile que lorsqu'on s'y abandonne... Pour commencer nous découvrons deux couples à la vie sexuelle routinière qui trouvent un arrangement pour éveiller leur libido. Ensuite, un beau-fils ligote sa belle-mère et tandis que la corde s'enfonce peu à peu dans sa chair, elle s'inquiète de cette relation qui lui semble malsaine... Puis deux amis d'enfance élevés comme frère et soeur étouffent leurs sentiment jusqu'à ce que les flammes du désir finissent par les consumer au risque de révéler leur relation au grand jour. Enfin, un jeune étudiant s'éveille à la sexualité auprès de ses amies. La nostalgie de cette douce époque se confond peu à peu avec les souvenirs si éphémères d'un ancien rêve.
05/2019
Photographie
8 Women
Le dernier livre de Collier Schorr, 8 Women, présente des travaux qui s'étendent du milieu des années 90 à nos jours. Les premières oeuvres de Schorr ont utilisé des publicités appropriées de magazines de mode pour aborder les questions de paternité et de désir ; les travaux ont introduit un regard féminin dans le débat sur la représentation féminine. L'appropriation a été le premier médium de Schorr et dans un certain sens, elle y revient, prenant ses propres images de mode commandées et les repliant dans un dialogue avec d'autres oeuvres. Les oeuvres de 8 Women proposent une variété de sujets, tous impliqués dans la performance, que ce soit en tant qu'artistes, mannequins ou musiciens. Schorr, qui travaille dans la mode depuis 10 ans, a créé des décors qui faisaient aussi office d'atelier, révélant des images qui ne pouvaient être faites qu'avec un sujet qui pouvait voyager entre l'objet du désir et le garant d'une identité conçue dans ce moment précis. Travaillant entre les sorties et les manipulations de feuilles lacrymales, Schorr se demande qui sont les femmes qui souhaitent être regardées, ainsi que quel pouvoir existe en reconnaissant cela comme une position post-féministe.
03/2014
Littérature anglo-saxonne
Difficult Women
Paroles de femmes Récits tranchants et cruels comme la vie Par l'autrice du best-seller Bad Feminist. Romancière et essayiste, Roxane Gay est l'une des voix contemporaines qui ébranlent les certitudes et les systèmes.
08/2022
Non classé
A Life of Her Own
This study reconstructs Brittain's feminist theory, which mainly refutes assumptions made about women, supports companionate marriage, and demands the communal reorganization of child care and domestic work to enable a married woman to work outside her home. It compares her theory to her five novels. Doing so, it uncovers revealing feminist 'flaws', above all that marriage remains, the sine qua non for a woman's happiness. The study describes Brittain's way to the top as a formidable obstacle race, in which she constantly had to fight the men she loved, her children, her parents, and resulting domesticity in order to find time to write "the book of the decade". She reached her goal with the publication of Testament of Youth in 1933.
11/1996
Non classé
Henry VIII in History, Historiography and Literature
If this anthology on the literary appreciation of the life and times of Henry VIII can show how history, historiography and the history of literature are woven together as threads in a tapestry, if this book can show how varied the sources are from which historical images are fed, especially those of significant historical figures, then it will have surely fulfilled its purpose.
01/1993
Littérature française
Handicapped
The mere fact of existing is already a battle of every moment, but that of being born a woman is seen as the most arduous of battles, in a society that considers women not only less than men, but below men. The simple attributes devolved to human being are sometimes denied to them, under the indifferent eye of the society. Who is to blame for this general contemptuous attitude vis-à-vis the woman ? The man ? Society ? Or the woman herself ? Woman parenthood, excision, rape, sexual harassment, the prison, early marriages and widowhood are core points tackled in the seven short stories of this book where the main characters ; Micheline, Amina, Jenaëlle, Ann-Lise, Lucie, Violet and Bernadette shall each take the reader through their stories using their own words. Based on true stories, these fictions are a personal move to throw more light on the stumbling blocks faced by the woman in her struggle for optimal fulfillment. Through the life stories clearly depicted in this book, most readers can picture their own lives, the lives of a mother, a sister, a friend or a daughter. Two objectives constitute the backbone of this book ; draw attention on the way the woman is perceived by the African society and Cameroon in particular and raise awareness in the woman so that she can come to understand that the key to her destiny lies within herself and nowhere else. Hence the need to portray womanhood as society sees it : a handicap.
10/2020
Monographies
Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest
This fully illustrated catalogue is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between money, power, resistance and dissent. It accompanies major exhibitions at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. War, revolution and protest are defining themes in all periods of world history, shaping national identities and influencing material and visual culture in myriad ways. The ubiquity of money makes it a powerful vehicle for diseminating the messages of the state to the public, but the symbolic and nationalistic iconography of currency could also be subverted or mutilated in powerful acts of defiance, rebellion and propaganda. Beginning in Britain in the wake of the American and French Revolutions, the exhibition explores the political and social tensions present in society, and communicated through the production or defacement of money, over the past 200 years. It contrasts the use of money by the radicals of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, such as Thomas Spence, and the Suffragette movement, with the money produced by European empires as they scrambled to dominate the rest of the world. The currency histories of the two World Wars reveal the subversion of the very nature of what money is, and highlight the role of money as the tool of occupation, imprisonment, resistance and remembrance. The coins countermarked during the Troubles in Northern Ireland hint at the polarised nature of political discourse and sectarian violence. The exhibition culminates with the work of contemporary artists and activists who use money to highlight the challenges of the modern world, both locally and globally - as a canvas, as a raw material, or as a powerful means of communication. From a unique coin commemorating the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 to a Syrian banknote refashioned to raise awareness of the refugee crisis, this publication showcases many newly acquired objects from the Fitzwilliam Museum collection, alongside materials from the Archive of Modern Conflict. These objects are enhanced by a number of important loans from museums and private collections, including the cannon used at the Battle of Mafeking, an exploded transit van and contemporary art works that take money, its authority and destruction as their theme. Each object constitutes a witness statement to its time and its conflict, and each section has its own story to tell. The chapters - by archaeologists, historians, curators, and artists - create a rich context for the more than 130 objects in the catalogue, most of which have never been studied in depth or published before.
12/2022
Sculpteurs
Standing women of Venice/Femmes debout de Venise ; Standing black woman of Venice/Femme noire debout de Venise. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Barbara Chase-Riboud est sculptrice, poétesse et romancière franco-américaine. Elle vit à Paris. Elle rencontre Alberto Giacometti au tout début des années 1960. Tous deux ont tracé, au l des décennies, des parcours de sculpteurs différents - d'homme et de femme artiste aussi. Leur dialogue repose sur des points de contact : le travail de la matière et du bronze, la passion pour l'Egypte ancienne, l'écriture. Cette confrontation entre Giacometti, que l'on croit "épuré" et classique, et Chase-Riboud, "matérielle" et baroque, révèle également une commune attention passionnée à la représentation du corps. Cette exposition, première en France de Barbara Chase-Riboud depuis 1974, nous livre le regard d'une artiste sur l'oeuvre d'Alberto Giacometti avec laquelle elle entre en sympathie. Barbara Chase-Riboud is a French-American sculptor, poet and novelist. She lives in Paris. She met Alberto Giacometti in the ? early 1960s. Throughout the decades, both artists have traced different paths as sculptors - as man and woman artists too. Their dialogue rests on points of contact : the work on matter and bronze, a passion for Ancient Egypt and writing. This confrontation between Giacometti, whom one considers as "streamlined" and classical, and Chase-Riboud, "tangible" and baroque, also reveals a shared passionate attention to the representation of the body. This exhibition, the rst in France for Barbara Chase-Riboud since 1974, offers us the gaze of a woman artist on the oeuvre of Alberto Giacometti with whom she is in sympathy.
11/2021
Animaux, nature
Muséum folie
... ou le Muséum dans tous ses états : ses collections, fossiles, naturalisées ou vivantes, scientifiques et artistiques, comme vous ne les avez jamais vues ! L'histoire naturelle commence par nommer ce qui est. D'où, dès ses origines, les missions du Muséum de conservation, d'enrichissement, de valorisation et de mise à disposition de collections exceptionnelles, qui servent de socle à la recherche et à la diffusion. Ses collections comptent aujourd'hui environ 68 millions de spécimens, représentant plus de 400 années de collecte et constituant un disque dur de la nature indispensable à la connaissance. Porteur de cet héritage scientifique capital, le Muséum figure aujourd'hui parmi les trois premiers musées d'histoire naturelle au monde. Ce livre vous invite à huit voyages au coeur de ces exceptionnelles collections. Voyages à travers le temps, les sciences, les arts... et même votre propre imaginaire ! "Mondes perdus", "Monde minéral", "Monde végétal", "Monde animal", "Monde microscopique", "Monde préhistorique", "Monde humain", "Monde artistique" : autant de chapitres qui composent un dictionnaire du vivant et une histoire de la science, admirablement illustrés. A travers 200 trésors de ses collections de paléontologie, de minéralogie, de botanique, de zoologie, d'ethnologie, d'anthropologie et d'art, depuis les chemins familiers du Muséum en passant par ses coulisses plus méconnues et secrètes, ce beau livre, conçu comme un écrin de ses collections, retrace une formidable histoire de la connaissance du vivant ! Parce que l'histoire naturelle nourrit et entretient un lien original entre le terrain, le laboratoire de recherche et les collections d'objets et de spécimens, découvrez, au fil des pages et des histoires de vie de tous les échantillons et artefacts reproduits, l'aventure du savoir en train de se faire ! Parallèlement à cette édition, vous pourrez découvrir la série de podcasts "Les curieuses histoires du Muséum" produite en partenariat avec France Culture et prévue au printemps 2021.
04/2020
