La vie des arts (mode d'emploi). Gaule it is not only a

it is not only a question of rest

Centenary edition

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including Stéphane Mallarmé and Pierre Auguste Renoir

La vie des arts (mode d'emploi). Gaule it is not only aCan we grasp the arts in the plurality of their manifestations, their social and historical contexts, and their functions? This is the challenge of Jean Marie Schaeffer, who offers a series of spotlights on particularly revealing points in the life of the arts. Works of art are far from all "pleasant," whether in their content or their form. Many (and among the greatest) are cognitively and emotionally dissonant for those who are exposed to them. Yet,