Cette étude porte sur un corpus de tarentelles pour piano éditées en France de la fin des années 1820 jusqu’à la Première Guerre mondiale. Cherchant à comprendre comment cette danse, originaire du sud de l’Italie, en est venue à occuper une telle place dans le répertoire pianistique français du XIXe siècle, l’auteur commence par évoquer ses origines présumées, entre catharsis et rituel de guérison, puis son évolution en une danse de divertissement. Après une première partie consacrée à la façon dont les récits de voyageurs, les romans et les articles de presse contribuent à entretenir un imaginaire pittoresque autour de la tarentelle, la deuxième partie aborde la question de son acclimatation dans la France du siècle romantique. On y apprend notamment que la tarentelle de La Muette de Portici d’Auber a servi de modèle aux tarentelles qui figurent dans de nombreux opéras de l’époque. Avec La Danza de Rossini, la Tarentelle d’Auber a même lancé la mode des pièces s’inspirant du rythme et de la vivacité caractéristiques de cette danse. La troisième partie apporte enfin un éclairage particulier sur les 496 partitions pour piano du corpus, celles-ci étant examinées sous l’angle de leurs couvertures illustrées, de leurs titres évocateurs, mais aussi de la gestion qu’elles font de certains paramètres musicaux (rythme, tonalité, tempo, etc.). Englobant un répertoire qui va des pièces faciles pour le salon aux œuvres les plus virtuoses pour le concert, la tarentelle a séduit le public français par sa puissance d’évocation transalpine et l’énergie de son rythme tourbillonnant. / This study relies on a corpus of tarantellas for piano, which were released in France from the end of the 1820s until World War I. From the starting point of the supposed origins of this dance – between catharsis, healing rituals, and then its mutation into an entertaining dance – the author reaches an understanding of how a dance, which actually originated in Southern Italy has come to occupy a significant place in the French pianistic literature of the 19th century. After a first section devoted to the way travellers’ tales, novels and press releases contributed to foster picturesque imagination surrounding the tarantellas, the second section deals with the issue of its adaptation to the French Romantic century criteria. One learns, among others, that the tarantella from La Muette de Portici by Auber provided a model for subsequent tarantellas, which featured in numerous operatic works of that time. Along with Rossini’s La Danza, Auber’s Tarantella initiated an authentic trend for pieces, which were taking inspiration from lively components so characteristic of this dance. Eventually, the third section brings a particular emphasis on the 496 piano pieces of the author’s corpus. This section analyses them in the light of their illustrated cover pages, evocative titles, and also the way several musical parameters such as rhythm, tonality, tempo, etc. are treated. With a repertoire encompassing easy pieces intended to parlour attendees to more virtuosic concert works, the tarantella seduced the French audiences through its transalpine evocative power and the energy of its whirling rhythm.

In recent years the history of the garden has enjoyed increased attention within scholarly circles. Of particular interest is the history of the formation of the Picturesque garden. The ideas of three men, Richard Payne Knight, Uvedale Price, and Humphry Repton, are central to the evolution of Picturesque theory as related to the garden. The conflict among them has become known as the Picturesque Controversy. Due to misguided interpretations by modern scholars, however, the essence of the dispute has been obscured. Through a discussion of the development of Picturesque theory and a comparison of the actual points of difference between the above mentioned theorists, this paper proposes to expose the essential elements of the debate. It also demonstrates that, while all three participants are attempting to reach beyond the practices of their own century, it is Humphry Repton who distinguishes himself as the true herald of modern society and its attitude toward the garden.

In the latter half of the 19th century, Robert Louis Stevenson set off on two journeys through Belgium and France, two travels that were to become the subject of his early travelogues An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes. In these two travelogues Stevenson elaborates extensively on depictions of nature, and through these depictions, Stevenson suggests that there exists a special relationship between natural beauty and human emotion. In fact, this portrayal of human emotion as bound with nature can be considered as significantly Romantic. Consequently, this study investigates Stevenson’s depictions of natural beauty from the Romantic conceptualizations, the beautiful, the sublime, and the picturesque. However, these Romantic theories are subject to various definitions and perceptions by different aesthetes and intellectuals. Therefore, in this study a few important Romantic philosophers have been given special consideration, those are, Edmund Burke, William Gilpin, William Wordsworth, and John Ruskin. The analysis of Stevenson’s depictions is conducted by way of discussing excerpts and quotations from Stevenson’s writing in relation to these Romantic perspectives. Although these travelogues are misplaced as Romantic in terms of period of time, I argue that Robert Louis Stevenson’s depictions of natural beauty and human emotion in An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes reveal an interesting Romantic sensibility, which is founded on a combination of the aesthetic and philosophical ideas of the picturesque, the beautiful and the sublime.

Entre 1780 et 1830, la conception du paysage évolue radicalement. Au tournant des XVIIIème et XIXème siècles, Rome accueille une fraternité d’artistes qui construisent un nouveau regard sur l’architecture et la nature, qui se place aux origines du paysage moderne. Les itinéraires artistiques de quatre paysagistes français, Jérôme-René Demoulin (1758-1799), Jacques Moulinier (1757-1828), François Liger (1757-?) et Antoine-Laurent Castellan (1772-1838) appartenant à cette même génération, constituent le sujet de notre étude. Entretenant tous un lien avec la ville de Montpellier, ces hommes, exerçant la profession de « dessinateurs voyageurs », empruntent des grands itinéraires à travers une Europe en guerre. Engagés au sein de missions scientifiques ou de voyages pittoresques, ces artistes réalisent une moisson de dessins depuis Madrid jusqu’à Constantinople. Cette étude se donne comme objectif premier de (re)constituer le parcours et la production de chacun des artistes afin de nous approcher de leur personnalité artistique. Le musée Fabre de Montpellier conserve, disséminée dans ses collections, une grande partie de ces dessins de voyage. Ainsi, un travail considérable de réattribution fut nécessaire afin d’élaborer quatre catalogues rigoureux et inédits relatifs à chaque artiste (450 dessins au total). Dans un second temps, l’analyse de ces corpus retrouvés et augmentés, donne à voir la place de chacun dans les tendances artistiques contemporaines. Ne formant ni un groupe, ni un échantillon d’étude, ces quatre hommes représentent en fait, par leur parcours et leur production, un fragment des pratiques contemporaines du paysage, depuis les vues pittoresques de Jacques Moulinier, héritières du XVIIIème siècle, jusqu’à l’intuition d’Antoine-Laurent Castellan, qui réalise des études dans la forêt de Fontainebleau dès 1819, préfigurant alors lesdéveloppements futurs du genre du paysage. / Between 1780 and 1830 the conception of landscape, changed radically. At the turn of XVIIIth and XIXth centuries a brotherhood of artists were in Rome who had a new concept of the relationship between architecture and nature. The aesthetic journeys undertaken by these four Frenchmen of the same generation, Jérôme-René Demoulin (1758-1799), Jacques Moulinier (1757-1828), François Liger (1757-?) and Antoine-Laurent Castellan (1772-1838) are the subject of this study. Whilst following their profession as artists, travellers and making long journey across Europe in time of war, they maintained their link with the city of Montpellier. Involved at the heart of scientific investigations or making journeys in pursuit of the picturesque, these men made a harvest of designs from Madrid to Constantinople. The object of this study is firstly torediscover the individual journeys and drawings of each one and to come close to their individual aesthetic. The musee Fabre at Montpellier holds a large proportion of the drawings made during their travels within its collections. Thus in order to complete a definitive catalogue for each of these artists, 4 new catalogues from a total of 450 designs, a great deal of exacting research was necessary. Secondly to analyse each body of work to discover the place each one held in contemporary artistic trends more exacting study was required. These men form neither a group or a sample study. By their works and travels they represent a fragment of the landscape work of their time. Inheritors of their ideas in the XIXth century from the picturesque views of Jacques Moulinier, to the intuition of Antoine-Laurent Castellan, who made his studies in the forest of Fontainebleau from 1819, prefigure the future concepts of landscape.

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The present study inquires into the problematization of attention in the reception and distribution of photography in 19th-century Sweden. It investigates how photography’s alleged abundance of detail and indiscriminate reproduction became a problem in the reception of the medium. The problem became urgent when photographs were put to use by established discourses; specifically, when used in printed publications meant for a public. The thesis therefore argues that the problem of attention had a profound influence on how printed photographic or photographically illustrated editions (photo-texts) were modelled and arranged. For this purpose, the study affirms a particular focus on attention practices: the various ways in which the printed editions aim to regulate the reader’s attention before the supposedly distractive image. Specifically, the thesis focuses on how texts in these printed editions are arranged or juxtaposed in relation to the image, how they speak of and to the images, what values they reflect, and what effects they could be said to produce. Consequently, the present study is more than an investigation of a problem; it is also an inquiry into the various attempts to overcome this problem. The problem and its responsive practices will have different characteristics in the various contexts of individual discourses. Therefore, the study situates the problem of attention in four prominent genres of 19th-century photography: the topographical albums of photographic views, art books with photographic reproductions, the scientific atlas, and the photographically illustrated travelogue. These genres and forms of publication, as well as the discourses of attention relating to them, are discussed in separate chapters. Every chapter departs from a specific Swedish photographic edition from the nineteenth-century. In sum, the thesis aims – with its focus on the problematization of attention – at giving a new historical perspective on the emergent relation between photography and the printed word.

Jusqu’à la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle, les territoires montagneux de Grande-Bretagne sont inconnus pour la majorité de la population. Pourtant, les territoires du Lake District en Angleterre, du Snowdonia au pays du Galles et des Highlands d’Écosse font partie de l’essor de la peinture de paysage en Grande-Bretagne entre les XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. L’observation des artistes portée aux montagnes du nord profite à l’imagination à travers deux notions majeures : la beauté pittoresque et le sublime. En effet, la promenade dans le jardin anglais s’ouvre au Home Tour en terres montagneuses. D’une immensité suscitant la terreur en souvenir du Déluge, la montagne en tant que symbole de l’insularité fait appel au réenchantement grâce au travail des artistes, des poètes et des voyageurs. Les aquarellistes observent les montagnes britanniques et font de ces territoires des ateliers en plein air. Cependant les vues héritées de la topographie poussent à une reconstruction de la composition où les montagnes deviennent de plus en plus présentes dans les arts visuels jusqu’à engendrer un chaos synonyme de l’union romantique. Depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle, les territoires montagneux de Grande-Bretagne nourrissent le mythe du caractère britannique (Britishness). Les montagnes deviennent ainsi le symbole de l’origine développé en parallèle de la modernité industrielle. La pacification des Highlands à partir de 1747 encourage l’étude des vestiges du passé où les montagnes sont les ruines naturelles. Cette recherche de l’origine incite aussi à partir des années 1820-1830 le développement des identités nationales en Écosse et au pays de Galles au sein de la Grande-Bretagne. Ces identités tentent de mettre fin à l’anglicisation en revendiquant leurs spécificités culturelles et se réapproprient la montagne en tant que symbole national. / Until the 18th century, mountainous scenery in Britain was unknown to most of the inhabitants, and it was regarded as wild and gloomy. However, places such as the English Lake District, the Welsh Snowdonia and the Scottish Highlands were instrumental in the development of the art of landscape painting in Britain between the 18th and 19th centuries. Artists’ observation of the northern mountains captured the imagination through two major notions : the picturesque beauty and the sublime. Indeed, walking in English gardens lead to the Home Tour in mountainous lands. From a gloomy natural form following the Flood, the mountain became a symbol of insularity. This called for a re-enchantment through paintings and poetry, and then the mountain was allowed its glory. Watercolourists drew the mountains from Britain and turned them into a studio en plein-air. Thus, topography views led to a new artistic composition, where mountains became more and more painted in visual arts until the creation of a chaos synonymous with Romanticism. In the second half of the 18th century, these mountainous territories took part in the myth of Britishness. They became a symbol of origin, developing along with industrial modernity. The pacification of the Highlands from 1747 encouraged studies on the primitive past, where the northern mountains were natural ruins. In 1820-1830, the quest for origin also implemented the rise of national identities in Scotland and Wales upon British soil. These identities attempted to put an end to Anglicisation by claiming their own cultural specificities and reclaiming the mountain as their national symbol.

Nearly two decades after the cessation of hostilities, traces of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995) are still present throughout the landscape. Ruins resulting both directly and indirectly from the military actions remain scattered throughout urban and rural landscapes. Above the city of Bugojno, stands the shell of a hospital that was never completed and never opened. It is a visceral image full of unfulfilled hope and promise, and a reminder of the catastrophic events of the Bosnian Conflict. With unused and derelict infrastructure of that magnitude, loaded with symbolic meaning, it begs the question, how can it come to be used for the benefit of the local residents? The purpose of this practicum is to effectively design a redevelopment plan for the site of this former regional hospital, producing community space that promotes peace and reconciliation between the ethnic groups affected by conflict utilizing landscape processes and a program of socially based activities such as community gardening and food production. It will explore alternative uses and understanding of ruined infrastructure through investigation of traditional and contemporary landscape design theory pertaining to the picturesque, the aesthetic understanding of ruins in the landscape and the aesthetics of decay.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Otago Polytechnic, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. / Thesis typescript. Supervisors: Adrian Hall, Michele Beevors. Otago Polytechnic department: School of Art. "October 2008." Accompanied by a website of the exhibition of the author's artistic.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T16:19:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GIO-1.pdf: 21583998 bytes, checksum: d1c5c42e86215d6426b9d48609f648ae (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research investigates the picturesque in contemporaneity of works produced by me, especifically photographs, where such aesthetic category can be highlighted. From Richard Payne Knight, Uvedale Price and William Gilpin, three main XVIII theoreticians, the picturesque was conceptualized as a model for arranging and as landscape itself. Together with these authors, the artist Claude Lorrain was studied, on account of the magnificence nature of his landscapes, and Robert Smithson, author of Monuments of Passaic. Both problematize the picturesque and time, which are issues that were later investigated in tandem with George Didi-Huberman´s concept of survival and Rosalind Krauss´s concept of originality. Such approaches highlight a picturesque that is not only aesthetic, closed typology inside objective and formal qualities, but also reverberations that invite other ways of looking at contemporary landscape. The works that I present in this study used these theoretical and historical issues to understand the allure of determined conditions of nature elements found both in and out of the city space. Grasses, weeds and other plants appear in wastelands, lagoons and beaches, sidewalks and walls, equivalent to the longed English garden nature for showing how splendid the natural growth is / Esta pesquisa investiga o pitoresco na contemporaneidade a partir de trabalhos que produzo, especificamente fotografias, onde tal categoria estética poderá estar sendo evidenciada. A partir de Richard Payne Knight, Uvedale Price e William Gilpin, seus principais teóricos do século XVIII, o pitoresco foi compreendido como sendo o próprio modelo de arranjo e conceito de paisagem. Junto a esses autores, foram pesquisados os artistas Claude Lorrain, devido à natureza magnificente de suas paisagens, e Robert Smithson, a partir do trabalho Monumentos de Passaic. Ambos problematizam o pitoresco e o tempo, que são questões posteriormente investigadas juntamente ao conceito de sobrevivência de George Didi-Huberman e de originalidade de Rosalind Krauss. Tais abordagens apontam para um pitoresco que não é somente tipologia estética, fechada dentro de qualidades objetivas e formais, mas reverberações que disseminam outras maneiras de olhar para paisagem contemporânea. Os trabalhos que apresento valem-se dessas investigações teóricas e históricas para compreender o fascínio diante de determinadas condições dos elementos da natureza, encontrados tanto no espaço das cidades quanto fora dele. Mato, capins e plantas daninhas aparecem em terrenos baldios, lagoa e praia, calçadas e paredes equivalendo-se à natureza almejada pelos jardins ingleses, àquela que se mostra esplendorosa por invocar um crescimento natural