Studiolo n°19

Éditions Macula

2024

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Dedicated to the Life of works, issue 19 of Studiolo engages in a critical reflection on the "living" and "changing" nature of works of art, as well as the relationships and discourses that are constantly evolving around them throughout their biography.

Artists, collectors, art historians, and museum curators are continually confronted with the crucial question of the metamorphoses of artworks. From the moment of their completion, works undergo an infinite number of transformations, determined both by internal factors related to their materiality (durability, alteration, deterioration, erasure, crumbling...) and by external factors (accidents, vandalism, censorship, fragmentation, dispersion, loss of original context, restoration...), all of which can profoundly alter the perception and understanding we have of them.

What do we see when we consider a work? How does it testify to or reveal its own history? To what extent can changes over time be perceived by the viewer at a given moment, and are they capable of reconfiguring objects within new aesthetic, semantic, and social frameworks? How is this question addressed by the discipline of art history, conservation, restoration, and more broadly by the humanities and heritage sciences?

Each issue of the journal Studiolo includes a thematic dossier, varia, a section of critical perspectives dedicated to historiography, and in the art history section at the Villa Medici, an update on the activities of the art history department and restoration projects of the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici. Finally, open space invites contributions from the current year's resident artists.

248 pages - 134 color illustrations - 24 black and white illustrations
23 x 31 cm
ISBN: 978-2-86589-161-0
ISSN: 1635-0871