Coastal Opal Coast University (Boulogne-sur-Mer) – University Center of the Museum
Dressing and rethinking the work: the concept of restoration
Wednesday April 7, 2021
Scientific committee
Jean Devaux, Professor at ULCO, French literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Xavier Escudero, Professor at ULCO, Hispanic Studies
Jean-Louis Podvin, Professor at ULCO, Ancient History, Director of UR HLLI
organizing committee
Grace Baillet, Virginie Picot and Cécile Rault
(doctoral students in Letters and History at the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale)
Summary of the study day
The interventions of this study day focus on the concept, very semantically, of the restoration of a lost work. The latter is to be understood as an altered or ruined work, namely any historical or literary work that has suffered the abuse of time and / or man. These works in perdition imply a rediscovery, a metamorphosis, even a total renewal, ultimately, whether the lost work has been healed in an almost medical sense, namely repaired, restored or redesigned. The point here is to reassess these works in their rightful place and to think of them as a
land conducive to the safeguarding of cultural and historical heritage.
Under a dual approach, historical and literary, the following questions will be addressed:
How and why to revive a lost model?
How is a work perceived when it is reintegrated into its historical flow? What do we learn about the historical period considered?
Is it appropriate to rebuild to rebuild better or to better preserve?
How is the new work understood when we still have the original work?
Programme
8h45 Home
9h00 Opening
9h00-10h05 – Session 1
9h15 Estelle Berlaire Gues (University of Lille), Livie, the female restitutor
9h35 Hugo Chatevaire (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Licia Buttà of the Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona), Discovery and restoration of medieval painted ceilings in Barcelona: from preservation to historiographical and patrimonial oblivion
9h55 Discussion
10h05 Pause
10h35-11h25 – Session 2
10h35 Justine Gain (École du Louvre – EPHE – INHA), Stories of restoration, the polymorphous work of Jean-Baptiste Plantar
10h55 Thomas Thisselin (Institute for Research in Musicology – CNRS), The restoration of Pictures at an exhibition orchestrated by Maurice Ravel
11:15 a.m. Discussion
11h25-12h15 – Session 3
11h25 Julien Lefebvre-Bier (Université de Picardie Jules Verne), Interpreting the work: reinscribing or reconstructing? The controversy between Raymond Picard and Roland Barthes
11h45 Ariane Loraschi (University of Strasbourg), Dario Fo and the reintroduction of Medieval Mystery. Food mystery : restoration, reintegration, revolution?
12h05 Discussion
12h15 Lunch
14h00-15h40 – Session 4
14h00 Bénédicte Chachuat (Toulouse Jean Jaurès University), The place of conjectures in the edition of the Pharsale de Lucain: editing between restoration and correction
14h20 Chiara Tavella (University of Turin / Sorbonne Nouvelle University – Paris 3), Restoration as reconstruction: the printed tradition of Mystery of the Resurrection by Arnoul Gréban in the light of his handwritten tradition
14h40 Marine Mazars (Toulouse Jean Jaurès University), Du De St. Patrick’s Purgatory at The fabulous adventure of Ramon de Perilhos, or how to stay in the limelight
15h00 Florentin Machut (University of Lille), The tradition of fin ‘amors in Castilian medieval poetry: towards the restoration of a Golden Age?
15h20 Discussion
15h40 Pause
16h10-17h25 – Session 5
16h10 Mathilde Greuet, (University of Lille), Rethinking the buildings destroyed by acts of war in Hauts-de-France in the 20th centurye century
16h30 Solène Scherer (Toulouse Jean Jaurès University), A dressing of the present on a wound from the past? Insertion of contemporary architecture into the destroyed old building as an alternative to identical restoration
16h50 Cécile Rault (Université Littoral Côte d’Opale), The notion of resilience in the work of reconstruction, the port example of Dunkirk
17h10 Discussion
17h25 Arnaud Timbert (University professor in Art History, Dean of UFR Arts – University of Picardie Jules Verne), Conclusions of the day and opening
17h55 End of the day
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