Un Moyen Âge émancipateur book launch and signing
« A recent survey conducted in French-speaking art and design schools leads to a surprising finding: many students claim that craftsmanship is the future of art and that witches will destroy the patriarchy. They appropriate a composite imaginary mixing fantasy and copyist monks, medieval herbalism and communalism. At the same time, slogans in Latin are tagged on the walls by young revolutionaries. Could remedies to capitalism be found in the world that preceded its advent? To probe this political and artistic imagination built on a distant past, Clovis Maillet and Thomas Golsenne analyze contemporary works, medieval sources and the thought of Silvia Federici and William Morris who, each in their own place, propose an emancipating vision of the Middle Ages.
Lecturer in art history and visual studies at the University of Lille, former director of the Bricology research unit at the Villa Arson in Nice, Thomas Golsenne has published Carlo Crivelli et le matérialisme mystique du Quattrocento (2017).
Clovis Maillet is a professor of art history and theory at the art schools of Angers and Geneva, a performance artist in duo with Louise Hervé, and a medievalist. He is the author of the book Les Genres fluides : de Jeanne d’Arc aux saintes trans (2020). Même pas l’hiver, Editions.
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Même pas l’hiver is a publishing house founded by François Aubart and Camille Pageard. It publishes books on art and poetry, presenting committed and inventive voices that mix singular positions and renewal of writing forms.
