9 février 2012
Andrea Bell, « Not Caged In: Sound Acts », Atelier des Petits Champs, ID : 10670/1.wclejj
At the beginning of the 19th century, when such issues were starting to matter less and less, the French art and architectural historian and critic Quatremère de Quincy summarized the hierarchical ordering of the fine arts that had been foundational in Western art theory since the Renaissance. Poetry had always been at the top, then, according to Quatremère, came music, trailed by painting, sculpture and finally dance. Quatremère’s original move was to find some other criteria that might ju...