Le paysage, lieu d’un repaysement
Artists and writers, whether exiled or merely seeking a change of scenery, have often chosen the Mediterranean or, more generally, the South, as the ideal spot, a space in which they can create, or write. In 1934 Ossip Zadkine chose to set up a studio in Arques, in the Lot, and it was beneath a ligh...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2017-11-01
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| Series: | Caliban: French Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/5205 |
| Summary: | Artists and writers, whether exiled or merely seeking a change of scenery, have often chosen the Mediterranean or, more generally, the South, as the ideal spot, a space in which they can create, or write. In 1934 Ossip Zadkine chose to set up a studio in Arques, in the Lot, and it was beneath a light that he perceived as Southern that he rediscovered the presence of trees and a soil which nourished his sculpture-work. Just as Lawrence Durrell liked to say that we are "the children of our landscapes," so the South became for Zadkine a place of rebirth or at least of reinvention. |
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| ISSN: | 2425-6250 2431-1766 |