| dc.contributor.author | Vernier-Larochette, Beatrice A. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:36:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2005 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINR16707 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/54798 | |
| dc.description | Thus far, the writings of painters have been subjected to various studies conducted with either biographical, comparative (writing versus painting) or psychoanalytic aims. In this study, we will try to understand what motivates the writings of five painters---Gauguin, Van Gogh, Moreau, Redon and Leger---dating back to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, a rich period full of social and esthetic changes. | en_US |
| dc.description | Whereas the correspondence of writers has very often been considered as "le laboratoire de l'oeuvre" where the writer informs the reader about his projects, we will try to see if the writing of painters might very well participate in an adventure beyond their pictural work. We should however note that a frequent lack of understanding about their paintings may lead them to increase their written expression in order to better explain their esthetic goals. | en_US |
| dc.description | The aim of this study is to show the importance of writing for artists in relation to their paintings and the public, an approach that will help us to uncover the motivation of their written work and its relevancy to the diversity of their plastic productivity. | en_US |
| dc.description | Rather than be limited to a particular theory, our research which considers many kinds of writings (personal and public), relies on different theoretical and critical studies devoted to the correspondence, diary and autobiography. Our study also relies upon the thoughts of various writers in accordance with the concept of alterity and writing, writers such as Barthes, Heidegger, Genette, Todorov, Sartre, Levinas, Blanchot. The exploration of our subject in relation to five painters, whose collective works span one century, will help establish an overall view that will allow us to assert the various motivations of writing. | en_US |
| dc.description | For these five painters, the act of writing contributes to making them aware of all the forces involved in the complex act of creation, therefore helping them to better face these forces. If writing is at the beginning a legitimate quest to see their plastic works understood by others, it also becomes a personal ontological quest to reaffirm a sometimes surprisingly fragile identity. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 2005. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Biography. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Art History. | en_US |
| dc.title | La peinture par les mots chez Gauguin, Van Gogh, Moreau, Redon, Leger. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
