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Quatuor site has its own domain name: quatuor.org - Then, the page you are looking at, is available by: www.quatuor.org/english/e_Art.html
(translations by the author, of a few texts of the more comprehensive French version - the links open into another window)
New texts in Englih
on art and architecture
Introduction
The usefulness of the language of shapes to say what we cannot be say with words, but what is nevertheless essential to comprehend our relation to the world. This presentation introduces the whole site,
so . . . may be you already met it. The table will remind you of the name and the order of the 16 paradoxes.
a history of art and architecture in 12 periods
the 16 paradoxes table
Initiation Prelude
Progressive presentation of the main notions, on the occasion of the analysis of art works. We begin with the prehistory, then, work by work, we move closer to the contemporary period.
The link on the small images loads a new window with two frames. On the top of each analysis, links lead to the other analyses of this prelude.
the Venus of Lespugue
(the translation of this analysis is complete, and it introduces to the whole key notions) - further analysis : the back side of the Venus (in French)
In the other analyses below, only the legends of the sketches are translated. The link with 
near the top of each analysis will lead you directly to the chained sketches.
Under these sketches, the text reading "image de référence" loads the work in the left frame.
The link with a number, such as ".2." displays the other sketch explaining the same paradoxical effect, and the link "suite" leads to the following effect.
A special page for English readers groups together additional translations whose sketches are not chained but load in the left frame. This page can be loaded from the top of the analysis, near the , and is also systematically proposed with the last chained sketches
rock engraving in the Valcamonica - available
rock engraving at Bohuslän - available
the Parthenon of Athens - in French
a Gothic rose in Laon - in French
Arman : Vénus des arts - in French
Matisse : Portrait of Baudelaire - in French
Brancusi : Colonne sans fin - in French
Niemeyer : Brasilia Cathedral - in French
Magritte : Les promenades d'Euclides - in French
Zaha Hadid - in French
MDRDV - in French
Quatuor site has its own domain name: quatuor.org - Then, the page you are looking at, is available by: www.quatuor.org/english/e_Art.html
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