Until March in Saint-Denis, you can see an exhibition on the Commune, rich in a
very important collection of documents and works. Having neither had the time northe material means to get there in time to write a report ourselves, but thinkingthat this is an event to highlight, we have chosen to reproduce below. after thepresentation text transmitted by the museum. ---- The Insurgé.es exhibition!intends to give pride of place to new historical approaches to the Paris Communeof 1871. ---- Based on remarkable works and documents, famous or never revealed,it presents the events and memories that transmitted them of men, women andchildren - whether famous or lesser known, identified or anonymous, individualsor collectives.More than 30 personalities from all walks of life are invited to share theirpoint of view on this historic episode and its contemporary resonances.One of the most important collections on the Paris Commune of 1871 is inSaint-Denis. Thousands of works and documents relating to this experience ofsocial revolution are kept at the Paul Eluard Museum of Art and History and inthe heritage collections of the city center media library.Drawings, prints, posters, newspapers, photographs, correspondence, paintings andother objects allow us to evoke this brief period - 72 days - but incrediblyrich, which profoundly marked history and which still fuels the most livelydebates. A century and a half of the events, it is an essential place to wonderabout the readings that can be made of it today.News from the Commune for researchThanks to an extraordinary red flag from 1871, original photographs of barricadesor the overturned Vendôme column, engravings or colorful caricatures, theexhibition offers an insight into the multifaceted daily life of theseinsurgents. News cartoons, taken from life and intended to be reproduced inengraving in the press, show elected officials and citizens debating. Newspapersand posters reveal their desire to change the world. The many documents ondisplay also recall the diversity of a city that was far from being entirely wonover to the insurrection.Prints by Manet, manuscript by Vallès...The violence of the civil war intensified in the last days of May 1871.Versailles soldiers entered Paris. During Bloody Week, communards and communardeswere shot en masse or taken prisoner. Prints by Manet and a painting byMaximilien Luce, never shown before, evoke this tragic period.How many died like this? Part of Paris is burning. As the ruins are widelyphotographed and serve as a tourist attraction, city planners seize theopportunity to redesign the city. The exhibition also offers views on elsewhereand from elsewhere, portraits of foreigners, exile and deportation, globalresonances.Thanks to an extraordinary red flag from 1871, original photographs of barricadesor the overturned Vendôme column, engravings or colorful caricatures, theexhibition offers to capture the multifaceted daily life of these insurgents.Bruno BraquehaisAmong the exceptional documents presented, we discover with emotion the pagesfound from the manuscript of L'Insurgé by Jules Vallès or the letters of thecommunard Jean Allemane sent secretly from the penal colony of New Caledonia. Wefinally discover points of view that claim the posterity of the Commune and itstopicality.In each section, historians, writers, journalists, philosophers, teachers orartists share their views in all subjectivity through brief texts constituting apolyphonic journey, which makes it possible to underline the nuances, to givedifferent voices to be heard. , complementary or sometimes contradictory,bringing together eras and points of view.The Commune of Paris breathes vitality into their research and their creations.Focusing on a theme, a figure or a particular event, exploring the forms oftransmission through artistic creations or reactions of schoolchildren, theauthors reveal to what extent this history still questions our society: republic,democracy, sovereignty. popular, freedom and authority, emancipation, work,gender relations, violence, collective memory...Would the Commune still inspire?The exhibition is accompanied by a rich program of cultural and educationalactions as well as a catalog published under the direction of Anne Yanover byLibertalia editions (96 pages, 12 euros).Anne Yanover and Laure Godineau (exhibition curators) Insurgé.es: views on thoseof the Paris Commune of 1871, Paul Eluard Museum of Art and History, Saint-Denis,until March 6, 2023, 5 euros, 3 euros on Sundays, free the first Sunday of themonth and for USPN studentshttps://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Expo-Insurge-es_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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