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De la destruction : un entretien avec Jean Pierre Raynaud
[text available in French only]. The editor-in-chief (and member of the Editorial comity of ESPACE art actuel magazine) André-Louis Paré interviews Jean Pierre Raynaud (…)
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9 May 2019
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Editorials, Free Reading
Destruction/Creation in the Age of Capitalism
Like all handmade objects, artworks will sooner or later disappear. Hannah Arendt, in her essay “The Crises in Culture,” states very well that as a cultural object, its status above all (…)
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3 May 2019
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Smashing Vases: Ceramics and the Aesthetics of Destruction in Works
by Ai Weiwei and Liu Jianhua
Ceramics are an ideal case study in the aesthetics of destruction. While a ceramic object can be preserved for centuries, it is always haunted by the chance that it might slip from unsteady hands or