Encore un format de 28 minutes, idéal pour faire le tour d'un sujet lorsque la réalisation parie sur un montage à la fois dense et dynamique. Dans House Beautiful, the Aesthetic movement * (March 2011 - November 2019), le présentateur est loin d'être un admirateur béat du mouvement dit "esthétique" éclos en Grande-Bretagne dans les années 1850 en réaction à la production industrielle de biens. Laurence Llewelyn Bowen aurait plutôt tendance à orienter le sujet vers une critique de ce mouvement prônant la beauté du cadre domestique. Malgré cet angle de traitement (avec musiquettes censées le représenter), l'auditeur reçoit un ensemble d'informations de bonne facture qui ouvrent sur le sens de la décoration intérieure.
À quand une émission sur l'histoire de la décoration et du design à France Culture ?
En français Beauté, morale et volupté dans l'Angleterre d'Oscar Wilde (exposition) (Universalis.fr)
Et la recension d'une exposition intitulée The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement dans un article du Guardian (Art and Design) du 26 mars 2011 : The Aesthetic Movement
* Laurence Llewelyn Bowen considers the effect of the Aesthetic movement on the home in Britain.
Many artists and craftsmen were repelled by the ugly mass produced goods on show at the 1851 Exhibition. A reactive movement started that made BEAUTY the focus and ambition, not only of art but of all things including household goods and furnishings.
Laurence starts at Leighton House in London, the opulent studio-home of the painter Frederic Lord Leighton, which was open for the public to admire and emulate. Rossetti, Whistler and Wilde also had houses which became hugely fashionable for their muted colour, their harmonious furnishings and their refined collection of art and objects, many from Japan and the Middle East.
Laurence traces the style to the very heart of middle class suburbia where all things 'artistic' became an obsession.
And we hear how much we owe to that movement today - how our glassy home magazines are descendants of the Victorian 'home hints', how the tiles and wallpapers we choose, the idea of lifestyle' and of 'good taste' can be attributed to what happened during the 1870s.
À quand une émission sur l'histoire de la décoration et du design à France Culture ?
En français Beauté, morale et volupté dans l'Angleterre d'Oscar Wilde (exposition) (Universalis.fr)
Et la recension d'une exposition intitulée The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement dans un article du Guardian (Art and Design) du 26 mars 2011 : The Aesthetic Movement
* Laurence Llewelyn Bowen considers the effect of the Aesthetic movement on the home in Britain.
Many artists and craftsmen were repelled by the ugly mass produced goods on show at the 1851 Exhibition. A reactive movement started that made BEAUTY the focus and ambition, not only of art but of all things including household goods and furnishings.
Laurence starts at Leighton House in London, the opulent studio-home of the painter Frederic Lord Leighton, which was open for the public to admire and emulate. Rossetti, Whistler and Wilde also had houses which became hugely fashionable for their muted colour, their harmonious furnishings and their refined collection of art and objects, many from Japan and the Middle East.
Laurence traces the style to the very heart of middle class suburbia where all things 'artistic' became an obsession.
And we hear how much we owe to that movement today - how our glassy home magazines are descendants of the Victorian 'home hints', how the tiles and wallpapers we choose, the idea of lifestyle' and of 'good taste' can be attributed to what happened during the 1870s.