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21/11/2008

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Baecque, Antoine de

2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

Libération - France | 05/04/2006

Love on show in Paris

Antoine de Baecque salutes an exhibition on the subject of love, called "L'Amour, comment ça va?", currently showing at La Maison de la Villette in Paris. The show uses photos, illustrations, and film footage to trace the development of love since the 1970s. "I was worried it would be all smiles, happy people, and songbirds or, on the contrary, doom and gloom, melodrama, and crossed love. Arlette Farge and Rose-Marie Lagrave [who staged the exhibition] have looked at love in a different light - as shared strength, social energy flowing from group to individual, with the power to shape the shifting nature of being-together." Lafarge explains that she deliberately removed love from the sphere of intimacy. "That's why we started with the workplace - factories, offices, boards of directors. Love is more than just personal relationships, it is the product of culture, politics, society. It's a sentiment that is all around us in our environment."

Libération - France | 09/03/2006

Illuminating Enlightenment!

The Parisian daily has high praise for the National Library of France's latest exhibition, "Enlightenment!", which assembles 18th-century manuscripts by famous authors, prints and engravings. "These items come before us, they project themselves through time to seek out and summon our present-day perspective, our emotions as citizens of 21st-century Europe. The question of the Enlightenment remains topical, as demonstrated by this journey into 18th-century thought. 'Lumières!', 'Aufklärung', 'Illuminismo', 'Enlightenment': a conjunction of words to convey a common inspiration for Europe, which found its specific form everywhere, and which sees the embodiment of itself throughout a journey which does not hesitate to multiply the languages, texts and works originating in France, Germany, Italy and England. An interaction between cultures that is also the foundation-stone of novelty."

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