Weaving Words: Le Corbusier and Jean Lurçat Between Tapestry and Poetry

[EN] Before his funeral service in the Cour Carrée of the Louvre on 1 September 1965, the body of Le Corbusier (1887-1965) lay with his tapestry Les Dés sont jetés (1960) as a backdrop. This article examines the place and significance of tapestry in Le Corbusier’s wider career as an architect, artis...

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Autor: Levitt, Caroline
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Corbusier
Jean Lurçat
Tapiz
Poesía
Pierre Baudouin
Le Corbusier
Tapestry
Poetry
Tapisserie
Poésie
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spelling Weaving Words: Le Corbusier and Jean Lurçat Between Tapestry and PoetryLevitt, CarolineCorbusierJean LurçatTapizPoesíaPierre BaudouinLe CorbusierTapestryPoetryTapisseriePoésie[EN] Before his funeral service in the Cour Carrée of the Louvre on 1 September 1965, the body of Le Corbusier (1887-1965) lay with his tapestry Les Dés sont jetés (1960) as a backdrop. This article examines the place and significance of tapestry in Le Corbusier’s wider career as an architect, artist and poet, bringing out the ways in which his woven works of 1948 onwards are intricately connected to his thinking across media. Jean Lurçat (1892-1966), the protagonist of modern tapestry design, is usually sidelined in art historical analysis. In bring these two figures together, I find a point of encounter not only in their engagement with tapestry as a form of resistance and revolution via a medieval model, but also in their different uses of poetry in the broadest sense. Close readings of the imagery of the tapestries alongside the writings of the artists themselves, Paul Éluard and Stéphane Mallarmé reveal surprising connections. [FR] L'article analyse l'usage que fait Le Corbusier de la photographie dans la publication et la diffusion de son oeuvre au cours des années 1920 et 1930, en prenant comme exemple paradigmatique de la Ville Church, Ville-d’Avray. Pour ce faire, nous proposons une lecture alternative à celle réalisée, de ce moyen, par Colomina (1988), en nous appuyant sur l'interprétation de la photographie surréaliste, effectuée par Rosalind Krauss (1981), comme signe et lecture. Concevant la photographie comme support matériel et lieu de dépôt de l'information - une sorte d’archive visuel prêt à être manipulé comme évidence documentaire, voire comme instrument autonome, dans la construction de nouveaux signifiants -, nous décrivons une stratégie dans l'édition des photographies qui se caractérise par son autonomie au regard du référent matériel ainsi que par sa manipulation moyennant les procédés partagés avec le Surréalisme. De ce point de vue critique, la photographie serait une technique ayant pour but de produire non pas des images mais des 'signes' dont la fonction est celle d'élargir et d'amplifier notre compréhension de la réalité et de l’architecture comme construction de cette dernière.Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaRepositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet20202020-10-07journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/152304reponame:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valénciainstname:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Reserva de todos los derechoshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:riunet.upv.es:10251/1523042026-06-13T07:49:27Z
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title Weaving Words: Le Corbusier and Jean Lurçat Between Tapestry and Poetry
spellingShingle Weaving Words: Le Corbusier and Jean Lurçat Between Tapestry and Poetry
Levitt, Caroline
Corbusier
Jean Lurçat
Tapiz
Poesía
Pierre Baudouin
Le Corbusier
Tapestry
Poetry
Tapisserie
Poésie
title_short Weaving Words: Le Corbusier and Jean Lurçat Between Tapestry and Poetry
title_full Weaving Words: Le Corbusier and Jean Lurçat Between Tapestry and Poetry
title_fullStr Weaving Words: Le Corbusier and Jean Lurçat Between Tapestry and Poetry
title_full_unstemmed Weaving Words: Le Corbusier and Jean Lurçat Between Tapestry and Poetry
title_sort Weaving Words: Le Corbusier and Jean Lurçat Between Tapestry and Poetry
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Levitt, Caroline
author Levitt, Caroline
author_facet Levitt, Caroline
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Corbusier
Jean Lurçat
Tapiz
Poesía
Pierre Baudouin
Le Corbusier
Tapestry
Poetry
Tapisserie
Poésie
topic Corbusier
Jean Lurçat
Tapiz
Poesía
Pierre Baudouin
Le Corbusier
Tapestry
Poetry
Tapisserie
Poésie
description [EN] Before his funeral service in the Cour Carrée of the Louvre on 1 September 1965, the body of Le Corbusier (1887-1965) lay with his tapestry Les Dés sont jetés (1960) as a backdrop. This article examines the place and significance of tapestry in Le Corbusier’s wider career as an architect, artist and poet, bringing out the ways in which his woven works of 1948 onwards are intricately connected to his thinking across media. Jean Lurçat (1892-1966), the protagonist of modern tapestry design, is usually sidelined in art historical analysis. In bring these two figures together, I find a point of encounter not only in their engagement with tapestry as a form of resistance and revolution via a medieval model, but also in their different uses of poetry in the broadest sense. Close readings of the imagery of the tapestries alongside the writings of the artists themselves, Paul Éluard and Stéphane Mallarmé reveal surprising connections. 
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