« Derrière un grillage » d’Octave Mirbeau et l’Hommage des artistes à Picquart
In January 1899, the Société libre d’édition des gens de lettres published a large format album of twelve litographs in honour of lieutenant-colonel Georges Picquart then in jail because of his revelations in favour of the innocence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. There are two more contributions in Homm...
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| description | In January 1899, the Société libre d’édition des gens de lettres published a large format album of twelve litographs in honour of lieutenant-colonel Georges Picquart then in jail because of his revelations in favour of the innocence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. There are two more contributions in Hommage des artistes à Picquart : a preface by Octave Mirbeau entitled « Derrière un grillage » and a significant list of protestors who, they too, claimed their support to the colonel. We propose to consider the way resorting to evidence supports the principle of justice which goes through the whole publication between the verbal and the visual. Indeed, in this text, the writer tries to make the isolation and injustice situation Picquart was being struck obvious. The artists were also concerned with sustaining the innocence of the colonel in their works. Following the thread of evidence thus enables to underline light primacy in the litographs of the album which make use of the allegory of Truth while the principle of Truth was being threatened at the decisive moment of the IIIrd Republic which is the 1890 decade. Now, the idea of justice, its requirement, are at the foundations of the republican idea, if not of politics. That being the case, what is shown is the original form of commitment through art and literature which the Hommage des artistes à Picquart constitutes at the time when the figure of the intellectual associated to the defender of Dreyfus was asserting itself in France. It is that the album thus built up turns back against the state the very principle that founds it and that it is supposed to defend : justice. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f6289f8d59574589be8cb1783b13c8752024-02-14T08:36:24ZengUniversité de BourgogneInterfaces2647-67542019-12-014216518810.4000/interfaces.672« Derrière un grillage » d’Octave Mirbeau et l’Hommage des artistes à PicquartNadia FartasIn January 1899, the Société libre d’édition des gens de lettres published a large format album of twelve litographs in honour of lieutenant-colonel Georges Picquart then in jail because of his revelations in favour of the innocence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. There are two more contributions in Hommage des artistes à Picquart : a preface by Octave Mirbeau entitled « Derrière un grillage » and a significant list of protestors who, they too, claimed their support to the colonel. We propose to consider the way resorting to evidence supports the principle of justice which goes through the whole publication between the verbal and the visual. Indeed, in this text, the writer tries to make the isolation and injustice situation Picquart was being struck obvious. The artists were also concerned with sustaining the innocence of the colonel in their works. Following the thread of evidence thus enables to underline light primacy in the litographs of the album which make use of the allegory of Truth while the principle of Truth was being threatened at the decisive moment of the IIIrd Republic which is the 1890 decade. Now, the idea of justice, its requirement, are at the foundations of the republican idea, if not of politics. That being the case, what is shown is the original form of commitment through art and literature which the Hommage des artistes à Picquart constitutes at the time when the figure of the intellectual associated to the defender of Dreyfus was asserting itself in France. It is that the album thus built up turns back against the state the very principle that founds it and that it is supposed to defend : justice.https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/672intellectualsartprotestlithographMirbeau (Octave)Picquart (Georges) |
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