L’image des bouchers (XIIIe-XXe siècle) : la recherche de l’honorabilité, entre fierté communautaire et occultation du sang
In most images that represent butchers in France since the Middle Ages, the animal’s blood and death are often eclipsed or softened, except for the realistic photographs of slaughterhouses in the 20th century. The will to conceal blood shows the butchers’ will to build an honourable image of themsel...
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| Language: | fra |
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Université de Poitiers
2016-02-01
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| Series: | Images du Travail, Travail des Images |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/itti/1313 |
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| Summary: | In most images that represent butchers in France since the Middle Ages, the animal’s blood and death are often eclipsed or softened, except for the realistic photographs of slaughterhouses in the 20th century. The will to conceal blood shows the butchers’ will to build an honourable image of themselves. This quest for respectability is obvious if you look at the ceremony clothes worn by butchers during civil and religious celebrations. In the 19th century, as the trade of butcher retailer becomes more specific, a dress code emerges around the white apron, which will soon be claimed as a symbol of community and pride. In the 1930s and the 1940s for example, the apron is clearly used by butcher shopkeepers as a symbol of their corporative hand-crafted identity, with a political connotation – that of conservatism – which is clearly accepted under the Vichy regime. |
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| ISSN: | 2778-8628 |