Expériences carcérales et traductions picturalesLe témoignage du peintre et objecteur de conscience Didier Poiraud durant et après la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (1961-1964)

The Algerian War has long been considered a “war without images”, owing to a combination of state censorship and the self-censorship of artists themselves. However, recent research has revealed numerous art works preserved thus far in the privacy of personal archives. This article follows the trajec...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marc André
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: CNRS Éditions 2019-06-01
Series:L’Année du Maghreb
Subjects:
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/4940
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1832581801680306176
author Marc André
author_facet Marc André
author_sort Marc André
collection DOAJ
description The Algerian War has long been considered a “war without images”, owing to a combination of state censorship and the self-censorship of artists themselves. However, recent research has revealed numerous art works preserved thus far in the privacy of personal archives. This article follows the trajectory of a conscientious objector, member of the Non-violent Civic Action group, whose detention drawings depict his everyday life as an inmate in several prisons and camps. Pursued and arrested for illegal protest, disobedience, and desertion, this artist-objector was detained and incarcerated eleven times at various detention sites in France. Didier Poiraud’s experiences shed light on the conditions under which wartime artwork can emerge and on the detention conditions faced by conscientious objectors. By carefully observing his drawings - shown here for the first time - and by analyzing them in the context of their production, we gain a better understanding of the relentless and arbitrary repression to which conscientious objectors were subjected during the Algerian War. Through his artwork, resistance in prison can be reinscribed within a larger fight that not only contested the decolonisation war but also led to the reformation of the military service.
format Article
id doaj-art-5d63db54e19f4ea3aaaa02fcb4119210
institution Kabale University
issn 1952-8108
2109-9405
language fra
publishDate 2019-06-01
publisher CNRS Éditions
record_format Article
series L’Année du Maghreb
spelling doaj-art-5d63db54e19f4ea3aaaa02fcb41192102025-01-30T09:56:17ZfraCNRS ÉditionsL’Année du Maghreb1952-81082109-94052019-06-012019522310.4000/anneemaghreb.4940Expériences carcérales et traductions picturalesLe témoignage du peintre et objecteur de conscience Didier Poiraud durant et après la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (1961-1964)Marc AndréThe Algerian War has long been considered a “war without images”, owing to a combination of state censorship and the self-censorship of artists themselves. However, recent research has revealed numerous art works preserved thus far in the privacy of personal archives. This article follows the trajectory of a conscientious objector, member of the Non-violent Civic Action group, whose detention drawings depict his everyday life as an inmate in several prisons and camps. Pursued and arrested for illegal protest, disobedience, and desertion, this artist-objector was detained and incarcerated eleven times at various detention sites in France. Didier Poiraud’s experiences shed light on the conditions under which wartime artwork can emerge and on the detention conditions faced by conscientious objectors. By carefully observing his drawings - shown here for the first time - and by analyzing them in the context of their production, we gain a better understanding of the relentless and arbitrary repression to which conscientious objectors were subjected during the Algerian War. Through his artwork, resistance in prison can be reinscribed within a larger fight that not only contested the decolonisation war but also led to the reformation of the military service.https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/4940FranceCampsPrisonAlgerian WarConscientious ObjectorArt
spellingShingle Marc André
Expériences carcérales et traductions picturalesLe témoignage du peintre et objecteur de conscience Didier Poiraud durant et après la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (1961-1964)
L’Année du Maghreb
France
Camps
Prison
Algerian War
Conscientious Objector
Art
title Expériences carcérales et traductions picturalesLe témoignage du peintre et objecteur de conscience Didier Poiraud durant et après la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (1961-1964)
title_full Expériences carcérales et traductions picturalesLe témoignage du peintre et objecteur de conscience Didier Poiraud durant et après la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (1961-1964)
title_fullStr Expériences carcérales et traductions picturalesLe témoignage du peintre et objecteur de conscience Didier Poiraud durant et après la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (1961-1964)
title_full_unstemmed Expériences carcérales et traductions picturalesLe témoignage du peintre et objecteur de conscience Didier Poiraud durant et après la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (1961-1964)
title_short Expériences carcérales et traductions picturalesLe témoignage du peintre et objecteur de conscience Didier Poiraud durant et après la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (1961-1964)
title_sort experiences carcerales et traductions picturalesle temoignage du peintre et objecteur de conscience didier poiraud durant et apres la guerre d independance algerienne 1961 1964
topic France
Camps
Prison
Algerian War
Conscientious Objector
Art
url https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/4940
work_keys_str_mv AT marcandre experiencescarceralesettraductionspicturalesletemoignagedupeintreetobjecteurdeconsciencedidierpoirauddurantetapreslaguerredindependancealgerienne19611964