L'ambiance attendue par le monde de l'art public à Montréal dans les années 1950 - Le discours d'humanisation de l'édifice et de la ville par l'œuvre murale abstraite géométrique vivement colorée

L'ambiance attendue par le monde de l'art public à Montréal dans les années 1950 - Le discours d'humanisation de l'édifice et de la ville par l'œuvre murale abstraite géométrique vivement colorée

[SHS:ARCHI] Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management

[SHS:SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology

murale

art public

Montréal

abstraction

discours

Becker

Discourse analysis shows that transformation of the ambiance, considered dull and cold, of Montreal in the 1950s was meant by the actors of the public art world: artist, architect, sponsor and critic alike. Their writings reveal a shared agreement to the effect that brightly coloured abstract geometric mural must counter the so-called nudity of the modern building, humanizing it by its beauty and its vitality. This modern public mural is a major innovation because it modified the aesthetic conventions of figuration and faded ambiance by one more contrasted, and the symbolic convention of commemoration, thus transforming the urban ambiance.

Doucet, Danielle

Ambiances in action. Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Ambiances / Ambiances en acte(s). Actes du 2nd Congrès International sur les Ambiances

Ambiances in action / Ambiances en acte(s) - International Congress on Ambiances, Montreal 2012

2012

FRE

conference proceeding

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00745539

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/74/55/39/PDF/ambiances2012_doucet.pdf

Montreal

Canada