Tracing the careers of students at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries necessarily involves consulting numerous, scattered and partial archives. By publishing the Ecole des Beaux-Arts register (1813-1968) in digital format, Alice Thomine-Berrada, Déborah Laks, Lucie Lachenal and France Nerlich have confronted themselves with the arid data of administrative archives, far removed from the contrasting, lively, singular experience of those who, at some point in their youth, wished to commit themselves to the path of art.
In examining each of the boxes in these registration grids, however, they came across fragile, resistant, problematic data that lifted the veil on a thousand unthinkable aspects of this formative period, of this constantly reinventing structure known as “school”, and of the networks that weave their way through time and generations. The speakers will share with the audience their journey through archives, individual stories and plural memories linked to that moment of latency and promise that is artistic youth.
Speakers: Alice Thomine-Berrada (École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris), Déborah Laks (CNRS), France Nerlich (Musée d'Orsay), Lucie Lachenal-Taballet (Musée d'Orsay)
June 6, 2025 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
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Photo credit : © Atelier Gustave Moreau à l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts en Avril 1896] - (Titre forgé)
