2017
Cairn
Véronique Jago-Antoine, « Le masque et la plume. Émile Verhaeren et Jean de Boschère devant l’art flamand », Études Germaniques, ID : 10670/1.8l0mgk
Many differences separate Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916) from Jean de Boschère (1873-1958). Yet, by paying tribute to Flemish pictorial tradition, they both reflect modernity with the same reflexive hindsight. Many Belgian francophone writers desired to embed their work in a pictorial tradition, mythicized by mixed labels such as “mystical” and “sensual”. The reasons behind this drive emerge from Verhaeren and Boschère’s respective insights: a fascination for an artistic heritage with a strong symbolic legitimacy, and an attractiveness of a non-univocal posture, preventing the work and the self from getting paralysed.