{"id":18923,"date":"2019-10-24T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=18923"},"modified":"2021-11-29T11:33:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:33:38","slug":"regarder-le-paysage","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/p\/regarder-le-paysage\/","title":{"rendered":"Regarder le paysage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of this book is the dialogue between the human eye and the artwork, in which landscape sets the context. Ever since the publication of the essay <em>Mort du paysage\u00ad\u00a0<\/em>(1982), landscape has become one of the battlegrounds of contemporary debate. The philosopher Alain Roger\u2019s thesis (<em>Court trait\u00e9 du paysage<\/em>, 1997) that \u201call landscape is a product of art\u201d is developed here through the analysis of the works in the Valais Art Museum. Landscape as a topic concerns a conception of the world and a perspective on it that are underpinned by aesthetic, philosophical, and religious premises, as well as scientific, political, and social convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Published to coincide with the opening of the new permanent exhibition at the Valais Art Museum, this book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the museum\u2019s extensive collections, especially the key role of the \u00e9cole de Savi\u00e8se (Savi\u00e8se School) and its link with contemporary art, the sublime in the Alps, landscape for the visually impaired, and the flights of fancy of Romantic art. The overriding theme, therefore, is the centrality of art in the creation of the concept of landscape in the West.<\/p>\n<p>The art discussed is arranged in chronological order, beginning with works from the late eighteenth century, including paintings by the Swiss artist Caspar Wolf, a pioneer of Alpine painting, as well as other artists, such as Raphael Ritz, Marguerite Burnat-Provins, Ernest Bi\u00e9ler, \u00c9douard Vallet, Angel Duarte, and Valentin Carron\u2014all artists who in their different ways contributed to the artistic development of the canton of Valais.<\/p>\n<p>The artists covered by the book are: Marina Abramovi\u0107, Jo\u00eblle Allet, Cuno Amiet, Ren\u00e9 Auberjonois, Aim\u00e9 Barraud, Alighiero and Boetti, \u00c9lisabeth Bi\u00e9ler, Ernest Bi\u00e9ler, Ursula Biemann, Edmond Bille, Roger Bissi\u00e8re, Marguerite Burnat-Provins, Valentin Carron, Gustave Castan, Gustave Cerutti, Julian Charri\u00e8re, Albert Chavaz, Catherine Contour, Sylvain Croci-Torti, Raphy Dall\u00e8ves, Fran\u00e7ois Diday, Angel Duarte, Equipo\u00a057, Olivier Estoppey, Vincent Fournier, Matthieu Gafsou, Yann Gross, Michel Grillet, Charles-Louis Guigon, Nelly Haliti, Ferdinand Hodler, Alain Jacquet, JocJonJosch, Oskar Kokoschka, Verena Loewensberg, Walter Niedermayr, Charles-Clos Olsommer, Jos\u00e9e Pitteloud, Andr\u00e9 Ramseyer, Germaine Richier, Lorenz Justin Ritz, Raphael Ritz, Studer\/van den Berg, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Robert Tanner, Wolfgang-Adam Toepffer, Gottfried Tritten, Pierre Vadi, \u00c9douard Vallet, F\u00e9lix Vallotton, Marie Velardi, Claude Viallat, Corinne Vionnet, Not Vital, Caspar Wolf, Andrea Wolfensberger, Nadja W\u00fcthrich, Guy Zahler, Andr\u00e9-Paul Zeller, and Mirza Zwissig.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>C\u00e9line Eidenbenz\u00a0<\/strong>is a curator and art historian. She is currently director of the Valais Art Museum in Sion, Switzerland. After completing her studies in Lausanne, Vienna, and Paris, she worked as an assistant lecturer at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne (2007\u201315). In the latter city, she founded Le Cabanon, an exhibition space specifically designed to display contemporary art. In 2012, she used her PhD thesis as the basis for an exhibition about hysteria at the F\u00e9licien Rops Museum in Namur, Belgium. In 2016, she transformed the display of the Valais Art Museum\u2019s collection with\u00a0<em>Looking at the Landscape<\/em>, which assembled artworks and objects from different periods and all manner of media. In 2017, she curated the exhibition\u00a0<em>Let\u2019s Walk, Take a Step, Take a Stand <\/em>in Le P\u00e9nitencier (the former prison building) of Sion, combining contemporary art with local creations and the Museum\u2019s alpine environment. C\u00e9line Eidenbenz was invited by Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council, to take charge of the Salon Suisse\u2019s program at the 2019 Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of this book is the dialogue between the human eye and the artwork, in which landscape sets the context. Ever since the publication of the essay Mort du paysage\u00ad\u00a0(1982), landscape has become one of the battlegrounds of contemporary debate. 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