Notably 'Shatters of a Portrait' (André Dimanche, 2007), which gives a magnificent account of this session, while photos and rushes from Scheidegger's film have been found.

Collaborator of the Maeght gallery, he organized an exhibition, and wrote several texts about his friend, which are for the first time brought together in Facing Giacometti. “To ask is to go to meet it” : while photographer Ernst Scheidegger films the work in progress, Dupin conducts their interview. While, in 1965, Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) sketched the portrait of the poet, in the studio on rue Hippolyte-Maindron, he saw the back of the canvas and, beyond, the painter's head, his rough mountain features. “Enigmatic Sharing”, wrote Jacques Dupin (1927-2012). 'Facing Giacometti' and 'L'Esclandre', by Jacques Dupin Read also this forum (2020): Article reserved for our subscribers Dominique Avon: “The common humanity” Collection. 'Contemporary Religious History in France', by Dominique Avon, La Découverte, 'Writings of History', 294 p., €25, digital €18. The one that brings, on the 'speech and gestures that have worked on humanity for more than two centuries', registering the religious “in general history, rather than leaving the space open to alternative and contradictory memories, confessional or cultural”. And, as soon as we approach the contemporary period (XIX e-XXI e century), these features are more salient, the sharpness of the religious debates that cross this time making creativity even more necessary, and mistrust more lively.Īlso the inventory drawn up by one of the eminent representatives of the contemporary history of religion, Dominique Avon, specialist in Sunnism, takes on the aspect of both a historical synthesis of the currents, personalities and works having structured these research – essentially since the post-war period – and that of a plea for a “neglected intelligibility”. 'Contemporary Religious History in France', by Dominique AvonĪmong the human sciences, the history of religions, gradually detached from its confessional ties from the second half of the 19 e century, possesses the virtues and handicaps specific to youth, in a universe structured by disciplines that are sometimes thousands of years old: dynamic, inventive, audacious, it is often reduced to the minimum portion in historiographical summaries, even considered useless by some.

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