Exhibition commissioner Images factoryPhilippe Descola offers an innovative approach to the pictorial representations present on the five continents. The anthropologist shows how four major visions of the world (naturalism, totemism, animism, analogism) are manifested in the images produced by human societies.
Philippe Descola is a professor at the Collège de France, director of the social anthropology laboratory.
Summary of questions:
- What is the link between the exhibition Images factory and your last book, Beyond nature and culture ?
- Do images make it possible to account for the different visions of the world or ontologies (naturalism, totemism, animism, analogism) ?
- Knowledge of ontologies renew our reading of images ? What do they bring in relation to iconology or the history of art in general ?
- Philippe Descola comments on the following parts:
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- Mask mask Ma’Betisek, half-human mind mask half-tiger (Malaysia).
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- “” Holy Madeleine reading », Master of the half-fugures (1D half 16e century).
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- Bark paint (kangaroo)
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- Large mask of Diablada, representing a cornu monster, with big eyes, the head surmounted by a two -headed dragon
What is the link between the exhibition Images factory and your last book, Beyond nature and culture ?
Do images make it possible to account for the different visions of the world or ontologies (naturalism, totemism, animism, analogism) ?
Knowledge of ontologies renew our reading of images ? What do they bring in relation to iconology or the history of art in general ?
Philippe Descola comments on the following parts
Video: A. Williamson