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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
In 1990 the Department of Graphic Arts at the Louvre made their holdings available to guest curators for a program called Parti Pris, or "Taking Sides". In this program, major cultural figures outside of the discipline of art history organized exhibitions based on the department's collection. Within its first several years, this novel collaboration produced exhibitions curated by philosopher Jacques Derrida and filmmaker Peter Greenaway.
Jean Starobinski, noted literary critic and intellectual historian from the University of Geneva, was selected as the third curator in the program. In his exhibition and accompanying essay, Starobinski explores the theme of largesse in its broadest sense. Arguing that gift giving and receiving are fundamental human gestures, he examines graphic and textual representations from the offering of the apple to Eve to Salome's gift of the head of John the Baptist, from the giving of laws to the gift of death. Charity, the poetic gift, and the benefits of Fortune all play a role in Starobinski's extended meditation on the act of donation. Lavishly illustrated and
dazzling in its scope and imagination, Largesse is an exemplar of the rich intellectual work that can result from crossing disciplinary boundaries and considering history as a dense network of themes and allusions.
Jean Starobinski, noted literary critic and intellectual historian from the University of Geneva, was selected as the third curator in the program. In his exhibition and accompanying essay, Starobinski explores the theme of largesse in its broadest sense. Arguing that gift giving and receiving are fundamental human gestures, he examines graphic and textual representations from the offering of the apple to Eve to Salome's gift of the head of John the Baptist, from the giving of laws to the gift of death. Charity, the poetic gift, and the benefits of Fortune all play a role in Starobinski's extended meditation on the act of donation. Lavishly illustrated and
dazzling in its scope and imagination, Largesse is an exemplar of the rich intellectual work that can result from crossing disciplinary boundaries and considering history as a dense network of themes and allusions.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Louvre Museum, New York, Edmond de Rothschild Collection, Orsay Museum, Abraham Bosse, John the Baptist, Bibliothèque Nationale, Dom Juan, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Gustave Doré, Julia Margaret Cameron, Adam Elsheimer, Antonin Artaud, Clarendon Press, Flavius Josephus, Hendrick Goltzius, King Lear, Museum of Fine Arts, The Odyssey, Victor Hugo, Yves Bonnefoy New!
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A passage from the ninth reverie in Rousseau's Reveries d'un promeneur solitaire [Reveries of a solitary walker] continues to demand my attention. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ninth reverie, brown wash heightened, oval format, brown ink, black chalk, beggar maid, gray wash, promeneur solitaire, des dessins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Louvre Museum, New York, Edmond de Rothschild Collection, Orsay Museum, Abraham Bosse, John the Baptist, Bibliothèque Nationale, Dom Juan, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Gustave Doré, Julia Margaret Cameron, Adam Elsheimer, Antonin Artaud, Clarendon Press, Flavius Josephus, Hendrick Goltzius, King Lear, Museum of Fine Arts, The Odyssey, Victor Hugo, Yves Bonnefoy New!
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- Gargantua and Pantagruel (Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 24) by Francois Rabelais on page 14, page 25, and Back Matter
- Idylls of the King (Penguin Classics) by Alfred Tennyson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Idylls Of The King by Alfred Lord Tennyson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Idylls of the King (Dover Giant Thrift Editions) by Alfred Lord Tennyson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius on page 39, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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