La nature comme œuvre d’art: Élisée Reclus et les (néo)impressionnistes
This paper deals with the relationship that Élisée Reclus (1830-1905) and the circuit of Anarchist Geographers maintained with Art, which concerned at the same time their approach to Geography and their political engagement. Questioning Reclus’ texts on Art and drawing on primary sources on his netw...
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Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography
2014-12-01
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| description | This paper deals with the relationship that Élisée Reclus (1830-1905) and the circuit of Anarchist Geographers maintained with Art, which concerned at the same time their approach to Geography and their political engagement. Questioning Reclus’ texts on Art and drawing on primary sources on his networks, with the aid of international literature dealing with these topics, I address a relationship among Art, Geography and Politics in which the world was seen as an artwork, by the metaphor comparing the artist working on his materials for an esthetic aim to the engaged scientist working for bettering the world on a social and environmental standpoint, that is to say embellish it. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b081c0dc3d6a4146afedd73155e6f94c2025-08-20T02:27:27ZengSociété Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of GeographyBelgeo1377-23682294-91352014-12-01310.4000/belgeo.13207La nature comme œuvre d’art: Élisée Reclus et les (néo)impressionnistesFederico FerrettiThis paper deals with the relationship that Élisée Reclus (1830-1905) and the circuit of Anarchist Geographers maintained with Art, which concerned at the same time their approach to Geography and their political engagement. Questioning Reclus’ texts on Art and drawing on primary sources on his networks, with the aid of international literature dealing with these topics, I address a relationship among Art, Geography and Politics in which the world was seen as an artwork, by the metaphor comparing the artist working on his materials for an esthetic aim to the engaged scientist working for bettering the world on a social and environmental standpoint, that is to say embellish it.https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/13207Élisée ReclusPierre-Joseph Proudhonneoimpressionismsocial artgeography and anarchismgeographic education |
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| title | La nature comme œuvre d’art: Élisée Reclus et les (néo)impressionnistes |
| title_full | La nature comme œuvre d’art: Élisée Reclus et les (néo)impressionnistes |
| title_fullStr | La nature comme œuvre d’art: Élisée Reclus et les (néo)impressionnistes |
| title_full_unstemmed | La nature comme œuvre d’art: Élisée Reclus et les (néo)impressionnistes |
| title_short | La nature comme œuvre d’art: Élisée Reclus et les (néo)impressionnistes |
| title_sort | la nature comme oeuvre d art elisee reclus et les neo impressionnistes |
| topic | Élisée Reclus Pierre-Joseph Proudhon neoimpressionism social art geography and anarchism geographic education |
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