In the studio. The imaginary world of Creation

This conference explores the symbolic and social function of the Atelier in the imagination and creative process of artists. Wide-angle, interdisciplinary and transnational, it examines the anthropological, philosophical, aesthetic and cultural fundamentals of the Studio over the long term (second nineteenth-early twenty-first centuries), in order to grasp the realia of a matrix structure as the imaging ego of artists at work.

Dr. Agnès Callu, art historian and philosopher, is an HDR Research Fellow at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie politique (LAP, EHESS/CNRS, UMR 8177), qualified as a University Professor (Sections 18 & 22) and a member of the EHESS Doctoral School (ED 286). She directs the collections “Le dessin au présent”, “Dans le silence de l'atelier” and “Imaginaires de l'architecture”. Her recent publications include Épistémologie du dessin. Concepts, readings and interpretations, XIX-XXIe s and Richard Texier. La bibliothèque des sentiments. Récit d'une élastogenèse (Éditions Jacques André, 2020, 2023); Images et architectures mathématiques de la séduction and Eva Jospin. Des baptistères en forêts (Éditions du Bord de l'eau, 2023, 2024). In 2025, [forthcoming], A. Callu (dir.), Bibliothèque(s) des nuages. Espaces, poésie et représentations.

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