Le Decoratif
by Jacques Soulillou
Paperback (Out of print)
(January 2016)
ISBN: 9782252039946
Price: $31.00
On back order
L’histoire et l’analyse d’un concept controverse.
English summary: Few aesthetic notions have been the subject of positions as negative as those inspired by the decorative. Supported by remnants of the notions of propriety and convenience inherited from the Classical Age, this concept derives its identity from the formation of architecturally inspired anti-decorative modernist utopias. Neither ornament nor dcor, the decorative is a parasitic concept whose acknowledgement calls not so much for a configuration of things but heralds the emergence of a fantasy linked to the three social peripheries: illegitimate actors of culture, of sex (women) and of the exotic (the primitive). From Kant to Mendini, the decorative dilemma redoubles and weakens the certainties of the visible.> Jacques Soulillou has developed an original theory of the decorative in his two works, Le Dcoratif (Klincksieck, 2000) and Le livre de l’ornement et de la guerre (Parenthses, 2003). He also authored L’Impunit de l’art (Seuil, 1998), which examines the bases of the issue of art’s penal autonomy in the modern age. He has translated from German works by Gottfried Semper and Heiner Muhlmann and, from English, Joseph Masheck, the author of Paradigme du tapis [English title: The Carpet Paradigm: Integral Flatness from Decorative to Fine Art]. Currently, he is a cultural attach in South Korea. His latest work, Esthtiques du dplacement has just been published by Smiose ditions (2015). French description: Peu de notions esthetiques auront fait l’objet de prises de position aussi negatives que celles suscitees par le decoratif. S’adossant aux ruines des notions de bienseance et de convenance heritees de l’age classique, ce concept acquiert son identite a la faveur de la formation des utopies modernistes antidecoratives d’inspiration architecturale. Ni ornement ni decor, le decoratif est un concept parasite dont la reconnaissance specifie moins une configuration des choses qu’il ne signale l’emergence d’un fantasme lie aux trois peripheries du social (acteurs illegitimes de la culture), du sexe (femme), de l’exotique (le sauvage). De Kant a Mendini, l’equivoque decorative redouble et fragilise les certitudes du visible.
Preface a la seconde edition
Introduction
I. Ornement et decoratifLa convenance. L'exces et le supplement. La mauvaise competence. Decoratif et purement decoratif. Decoratif et duplicite.
II. Trois peripheriesReformer le gout. Le Corbusier. Decoratif et resistance. Peripherie du premier cercle. Decoratif et psychopathologie. Peripherie du deuxieme cercle : la femme. Peripherie du troisieme cercle. L'arabesque. Geographie politique du decoratif. Le tapis. Liberte et servitude.
III. La fin des utopies antidecorativesL'esprit de convenance et ses avatars. Ornement et structure. Paradigmes vestimentaire et biologique. Ornement integral et synchronie. Le contre-sens cubiste. La chambre et le tapis. Harmonie decorative. Depassement du decoratif. La loi. La fin de l'architecture. Devenir decoratif. L'equivoque decorative.
Conclusion
Bibliographie (de l'edition originale)Bibliographie complemenaireIndex des noms propres
- By (author) Jacques Soulillou
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