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4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
The birth of Europe on the ruins of Rome
Emmanuel de Roux has been to see the exhibition entitled 'Rome and the Barbarians' at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice. The exhibition looks back on the period that is generally considered that of the decline of the Roman empire, stretching from "the Emperor Marcus Aurelus(160-180) to the coronation of St Stephen, first Christian king of Hungary in the year 1,000 ... . The Celtic interlaced designs bequeathed by Ireland are displayed alongside Vandal mosaics from Tunisia. The Avar people's incised jewellery vies with the Germanic 'Cloisonné' gold work and Byzantine ivories. The most moving piece is perhaps the 'Epinal Glossary' (7th century), the first Latin-English dictionary (in its oldest form) that history has left us. The Church, constituting the administrative framework of new kingdoms, gradually unifies the continent. ... It is through this intense, gradual mingling that European civilisation was born."
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More from the press review on the subject » Exhibitions / Museums, » History, » Italy, » Europe
For Elie Barnavi, Europe needs places of remembrance
In an interview carried out by Emmanuel de Roux and Jean-Pierre Stroobants, the Israeli historian, former diplomat an one of the founders of the Brussels Museum of Europe, considers that "Europeans need cultural places and places of remembrance. It suffers from not being imposed on its citizens as a living reality. It is no longer an ideal. People live in Europe without being fully aware of what unites them. This is no doubt because they have more powerful frameworks such as the nation. But it is also because Europe has itself failed to lift people's spirits. And yet, as an historian who, granted, is steeped in ideology, I am convinced that Europe does exist, that there is such a thing as a unique European civilisation ... . The European political project can only exist and succeed if it leans on a past, a history, an ideological dimension."
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Contemporary art, the last bastion of insider trading
Harry Bellet and Emmanuel de Roux note the arrival of speculators in the burgeoning contemporary art market. "Insider trading, which will land a trader in jail, is considered a virtue here. Knowing which artists will be in fashion next summer before everyone else can have a big payoff. Completely legally. Without going as far as imitating François Pinault who bought Christie's, one of the major operators on the planet, as well as an unparalleled source of information, many businessmen invest in galleries in order to be the first on the list. 'The business of art is the last great unregulated market', Peter R. Stern, a Manhattan prosecutor, told Artnewspaper magazine in 2005. This is not intended to scare, but quite to the contrary, for all those investors who feel constricted by the rules of the stock market."
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More from the press review on the subject » Cultural Policy, » France, » Global
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Should works of art be returned to their homelands ?
The journalist Emmanuel de Roux contributes to the debate on returning works of art to their countries of origin, Africa in particular. "Who should be given these objects that also belong to the international heritage of the world and should thus be conserved, studied and exposed in good conditions ? The colonisers created museums in situ - that of Dakar, for example, one of the most prestigious in West Africa. Nowadays, these barely frequented establishments are painful to see. Their collections have self-destructed, for lack of care and financing. They have also been sold by inept curators or else never paid for by governments whose priorities are not museums. Should we invent a system other than that of museums for the African continent to preserve its national heritage ? Maybe. But which ?"
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