https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Figuration-and-its-Modalities https://booksandideas.net/Figuration-and-its-Modalities 2023-11-21T08:00:00Z text/html en Grégory Delaplace Philosophy anthropology images painting Cairn.info <p>Images are nothing but figurations of our relationship to the world, that is, of our ways of worlding. P. Descola demonstrates this in a monumental study that does justice to the diversity of cultures, time periods, and artworks.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Artistic-Representations-of-Scottish-Identity https://booksandideas.net/Artistic-Representations-of-Scottish-Identity 2021-09-15T07:44:50Z text/html en Marion Amblard Arts History national identity Scotland painting Books and ideas originals <p>In her latest book, Viccy Coltman explores the evolution of Scottish identity in the long 18<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century through the lens of its artistic representations both in Scotland and abroad, thus revealing that it was much more multifaceted and complex than previously thought.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Scottish-Art-Then-and-Now https://booksandideas.net/Scottish-Art-Then-and-Now 2018-01-05T08:00:00Z text/html en Clarisse Godard Desmarest Arts architecture painting collection visual arts <p>“Ages of Wonder: Scotland's Art 1540 to Now”, an exhibition presented in Edinburgh by the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, tells the story of collecting Scottish art. Mixing historic and contemporary works, it reveals the role played by the Academy in championing the cause of visual arts in Scotland.</p>