Un herbier d’images : la collection de reproductions photographiques rassemblées par Bourdelle
What interest can a sculptor, who works in volume, find in the use of flat photographic reproductions ? This study aims at looking at the role and function of photographic reproductions in Bourdelle’s creative process. His personal collection gathers 2500 postcards, 1300 separate reproductions, to w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université de Bourgogne
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Interfaces |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/645 |
| Summary: | What interest can a sculptor, who works in volume, find in the use of flat photographic reproductions ? This study aims at looking at the role and function of photographic reproductions in Bourdelle’s creative process. His personal collection gathers 2500 postcards, 1300 separate reproductions, to which we must add the images included in the 670 books of his library and the reproductions he grouped in his archival folders. This study brings to light four different uses of these images according to their status. Bourdelle’s collection of postcards operates as a world in miniature. The separate reproductions constitute a kind of pocket museum that Bourdelle used to make copies. In his library he gathered the books about his peers, who are absent in the first two collections of images. The final category concerns his archival folders which are simply dedicated to the memory of his own works and life. |
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| ISSN: | 2647-6754 |