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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Main Author: Cécile Oumhani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2017-11-01
Series:Caliban: French Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/caliban/5205
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description 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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Le paysage, lieu d’un repaysement
Caliban: French Journal of English Studies
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