La politique de l’État en matière de décor de bâtiments administratifs : un art national ?
Through the National Centre for Visual Arts (Centre national des arts plastiques, Cnap) and the various institutions that preceded it—including the Bureau des travaux d’arts—the French State has undertaken a decoration policy for its places of power. This policy is based on a double system of works...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
2018-05-01
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| Series: | In Situ |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/insitu/15934 |
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| Summary: | Through the National Centre for Visual Arts (Centre national des arts plastiques, Cnap) and the various institutions that preceded it—including the Bureau des travaux d’arts—the French State has undertaken a decoration policy for its places of power. This policy is based on a double system of works of art purchased directly at the artist’s studio or on the market and deposited at the place of power, and public commissions for site-specific works. From the end of the Second World War II up to the present day, what does the State tell us about itself through this decorative policy? Under the Fourth Republic, art works made for these places can either glorify the unity of the nation, using an iconography inherited from the Resistance movement, or develop regionalist themes on painted panels in prefectures or town halls. After an important decrease of public commissions for administrations during the first years of the Fifth Republic, the practice reappears in new forms with the creation of the Public Commission Fund (Fonds de la commande publique) in 1983. Even if some themes linked to the sovereignty of the State or to regional identities survive, the art pieces destined to administrative buildings tend to lose all iconographic specificity in favour of a broader policy supporting contemporary art, regardless of its destination. |
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| ISSN: | 1630-7305 |