Framing French culture
edited by Natalie Edwards, Ben McCann and Peter Poiana
FREE | 2015 | Ebook (PDF) | 978-1-922064-87-5 | 298 pp
65 colour illustrations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/framing-french
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Chapter details
1. The doubling of the frame — Visual art and discourse
Natalie Edwards, Ben McCann and Peter Poiana
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/framing-french-012. Colonial vision: French voyager-artists, Aboriginal subjects and the British Colony at Port Jackson
Nicole Starbuck
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/framing-french-023. An artist in the making: The early drawings of Charles-Alexandre Lesueur during the Baudin expedition to Australia
John West-Sooby
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/framing-french-034. Framing New Holland or framing a narrative? A representation of Sydney according to Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
Jean Fornasiero
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/framing-french-045. The Artwork of the Baudin expedition to Australia (1800-1804): Nicolas-Martin Petit's 1802 portrait of an Aboriginal woman and child from Van Diemen's Land
Jane Southwood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/framing-french-056. Framing the Eiffel Tower: From postcards to Postmodernism
Sonya Stephens
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/framing-french-067. The return of Trauner: Late style in 1970s and 1980s French film design
Ben McCann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/framing-french-078. Annie Ernaux's phototextual archives: Ecrire la vie
Natalie Edwards
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/framing-french-089. The image of self-effacement: The revendication of the autonomous author in Marie NDiaye's Autoportrait en vert
Christopher Hogarth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/framing-french-0910. Accumulating Algeria: Recurrent images in Pied-Noir visual works
Amy L. Hubbell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/framing-french-1011. Georges Bataille's Manet and the 'strange impression of an absence'
Caroline Sheaffer-Jones
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/framing-french-1112. Entropy and osmosis in conceptualisations of the Surrealist frame
Klem James
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/framing-french-1213. Art and origin: Bataille and Blanchot's return to Lascaux
Peter Poiana
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20851/framing-french-13
Writers, painters, photographers, illustrators, directors and designers search for the perfect frame to capture, isolate, subvert or aestheticise an image, and may deploy a range of framing devices to tell their stories: the layered photograph, the jumbled timeframe, the flashback, the voice-over, the unreliable narrator, the hybrid assemblage.
Throughout this book, the concept of framing is used to look at art, photography, scientific drawings and cinema as visually constituted, spatially bounded productions. The way these genres relate to that which exists beyond the frame, by means of plastic, chemically transposed, pencil-sketched or moving images allows us to decipher the particular language of the visual and at the same time circumscribe the dialectic between presence and absence that is proper to all visual media. Yet, these kinds of re-framing owe their existence to the ruptures and upheavals that marked the demise of certain discursive systems in the past, announcing the emergence of others that were in turn overturned.
Review
'This is a highly valuable academic publication that explains how culture may be encapsulated within or outside various frames that can be interpreted on different levels to reveal aspects of societies, past and present, and to reflect both the subject framed and and the subject's creator.The text deserves to be slowly digested to grasp the intricacies of each topic under discussion.'
Marie Ramsland, The French Australian Review, February 2017.