Baudelaire’s “Le Jet d’eau”: Verbal-Visual Inquiry and the Illustrated Book
A single text illustrated by several artists presents a unique opportunity for image-text inquiry. This is indeed the case with the illustrators of Baudelaire’s “Le jet d’eau” from his celebrated Fleurs du mal. As each illustrator renders the text into images that represent a unique “reading” of it,...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:interfaces_663 https://doi.org/10.4000/interfaces.663 urn:doi:10.4000/interfaces.663 en https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/663 2020-12-15T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/h4h9 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Baudelaire’s “Le Jet d’eau”: Verbal-Visual Inquiry and the Illustrated Book Interfaces Université Bourgogne Europe info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2647-6754 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1164-6225 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces Haskell, Eric T. word and image French book illustration Baudelaire (Charles) Fleurs du mal (Les) Jet d’eau (Le) livre illustré français texte-image Baudelaire (Charles) Fleurs du mal (Les) Jet d’eau (Le) A single text illustrated by several artists presents a unique opportunity for image-text inquiry. This is indeed the case with the illustrators of Baudelaire’s “Le jet d’eau” from his celebrated Fleurs du mal. As each illustrator renders the text into images that represent a unique “reading” of it, our understanding of the poetic gesture is frequently enriched by the graphic gesture. Novel critical points of view which may generate a substantial rethinking of the aesthetic contours of the textual entity thus come into focus. The traditional function of illustration as shedding light onto the word, or of actually extending its meaning to transcend habitual mimetic approaches, evolves with the advent of Modernity as modes of representation espouse fresh contours. “Le jet d’eau” has had a prolific career in the twentieth-century livre d’artiste. Offering a rich terrain of interpretative possibilities, this poem has enticed an array of artists to picture it often unexpected ways. Our point of departure will consider both poetic and graphic universes as écritures whose intersections propose uncommon thresholds beyond which are poised new ideas. This notion is central to our concerns. Similarly, the dynamics of IMAGinING ideas, the interfacing of verbal and visual planes, and the move from representation to abstraction are germane to this investigation. Thus, this discussion of how twentieth-century artists have represented this nineteenth-century text will at once re-frame and re-figure the intrinsic value of illustration as interpretation. L’illustration d’un seul texte par plusieurs artistes présente une occasion remarquable d’étudier les rapports texte/image. C’est ce que nous offre l’étude des illustrateurs du poème de Baudelaire, « Le jet d’eau », extrait des Fleurs du mal. Chaque illustrateur apporte sa « lecture » particulière du poème, et notre compréhension de l’œuvre s’en trouve modifiée. Des éléments critiques nouveaux nous apparaissent et nous conduisent à repenser les contours esthétiques du document. La fonction traditionnelle de l’illustration qui consiste à éclairer le texte, ou à en élargir la portée pour aller au-delà des approches mimétiques, a évolué avec l’avènement de la Modernité. « Le jet d’eau » a inspiré de nombreux livres d’artistes. En raison de ses multiples niveaux d’interprétation, le poème a suscité des illustrations très variées et parfois inattendues. Nous postulerons que les univers poétique et graphique sont chacun des écritures à l’intersection desquelles de nouvelles idées peuvent prendre leur essor. C’est ce qui nous semble central. De même, la manière d’IMAGinER les idées, les ponts entre le visuel et le verbal, et le passage de la représentation à l’abstraction accompagnent notre étude. Ainsi, la façon dont les artistes du vingtième siècle ont représenté le poète du dix-neuvième siècle nous permet de re-cadrer et re-figurer la valeur intrinsèque de l’illustration comme représentation. |
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word and image French book illustration Baudelaire (Charles) Fleurs du mal (Les) Jet d’eau (Le) livre illustré français texte-image Baudelaire (Charles) Fleurs du mal (Les) Jet d’eau (Le) |
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word and image French book illustration Baudelaire (Charles) Fleurs du mal (Les) Jet d’eau (Le) livre illustré français texte-image Baudelaire (Charles) Fleurs du mal (Les) Jet d’eau (Le) Haskell, Eric T. Baudelaire’s “Le Jet d’eau”: Verbal-Visual Inquiry and the Illustrated Book |
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A single text illustrated by several artists presents a unique opportunity for image-text inquiry. This is indeed the case with the illustrators of Baudelaire’s “Le jet d’eau” from his celebrated Fleurs du mal. As each illustrator renders the text into images that represent a unique “reading” of it, our understanding of the poetic gesture is frequently enriched by the graphic gesture. Novel critical points of view which may generate a substantial rethinking of the aesthetic contours of the textual entity thus come into focus. The traditional function of illustration as shedding light onto the word, or of actually extending its meaning to transcend habitual mimetic approaches, evolves with the advent of Modernity as modes of representation espouse fresh contours. “Le jet d’eau” has had a prolific career in the twentieth-century livre d’artiste. Offering a rich terrain of interpretative possibilities, this poem has enticed an array of artists to picture it often unexpected ways. Our point of departure will consider both poetic and graphic universes as écritures whose intersections propose uncommon thresholds beyond which are poised new ideas. This notion is central to our concerns. Similarly, the dynamics of IMAGinING ideas, the interfacing of verbal and visual planes, and the move from representation to abstraction are germane to this investigation. Thus, this discussion of how twentieth-century artists have represented this nineteenth-century text will at once re-frame and re-figure the intrinsic value of illustration as interpretation. |
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