Mediality of Smells / Médialité Des Odeurs

ISBN-13: 9781789976069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 398 str.

Jean-Alexandre Perras; Érika Wicky

Opis

The study of scents and all things olfactory is thriving, a sign of our current interest in direct and immediate experiences of reality. This volume contributes to the discussion by focusing on the mediality of smells, the mechanisms by which scents circulate and are diffused, explored across different cultures and historical periods.

Recenzje

«This innovative collection of seventeen contributions to the ever-widening world of olfaction is insightful, erudite, and elegantly presented. The book uses mediality as the angle of approach in a truly interdisciplinary endeavor and underscores how the world is given to us synesthetically, across senses and scholarly disciplines, and how much fragrances provide the vital atmosphere.» (Professor Hans J. Rindisbacher, Pomona College)

Spis treści

Contents: Jean-Alexandre Perras et Érika Wicky: Introduction : Culture olfactive et médialité des odeurs - Jean-Alexandre Perras and Érika Wicky: Introduction: Olfactive culture and mediality of smells - Perfumes / Parfums - Entretien avec Isabelle Reynaud-Chazot: L'Osmothèque : une bibliothèque des évanescences - Sterenn Le Maguer-Gillon: The art of hospitality: Incense burners and the welcoming ceremony in the Medieval Islamic society (7th-15th centuries) - Jean-Alexandre Perras: La poudre et le petit- maître en France et en Angleterre au XVIII^e siècle : parfum de gloire, parfum de ruelle - Eugénie Briot: « Des parfums où la chair se damne » : entre séméiologie médicale et morale des apparences. L'odor di femmina et l'imaginaire fin-de-siècle - The smell of books / L'odeur des livres - Ada Ackerman: Eduardo Kac, the olfactive poet - Cecilia Bembibre and Matija Strlic: Preserving historic smells: The question of authenticity - Rémi Digonnet: « L'odeur du cabinet, cette odeur liquoreuse, chaude de la fumée du tabac » : A linguistic approach to the necessary contextualization of odours in Zola's Le Ventre de Paris - Jonathan Reinarz and Ludmilla Jordanova: «This [Smelly] Little World: Smell and identity in Francis Brett Young's The Young Physician» - Images - Rosine Lheureux: Nommer et montrer l'odeur : étiquettes et contenants en parfumerie et cosmétique à la fin du XIX^e siècle - Frédérique Desbuissons: La peinture qui pue : les odeurs dans les salons caricaturaux français du XIX^e siècle - Christina Bradstreet: Représenter les parfums par la peinture (1850-1914) - Architecture - Manola Antonioli: Peter Sloterdijk : de la « miasmologie » à l'Air Design - Marie Thébaud-Sorger: La chimie des fosses d'aisances parisiennes dans les années 1780 : miasmes et air vicié - Suzel Balez: On the importance of habituation in the spatial mediality of smells - Olfactive concerts / Concerts olfactifs - Frank Krause: Smell-sound synaesthesia as revelatory medium: A brief history with emphasis on German literature (1900-1930) - Giusy Pisano et Érika Wicky: Concerts olfactifs fin- de- siècle : les parfums entre vibrations et matière - Sergej Rickenbacher: L'invention de l'orgue à senteurs : sur l'interdépendance de la littérature et de l'objet technique.

O autorze

Jean-Alexandre Perras holds a PhD in French literature from the University of Montreal and the University of Paris 8. His thesis, L'Exception exemplaire: inventions et usages du génie (XVI^e-XVIII^e siècle), was published in 2015. He is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie research fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, where his research focuses on the innovation strategies of eighteenth-century hairdressers.

Érika Wicky holds a PhD in art history from the University of Montreal. After her dissertation on nineteenth-century visual culture published under the title Les paradoxes du détail: Voir, savoir, representer à l'ère de la photographie (2015), she dedicated her research to the history of olfactory culture (eighteenth to twentieth century). She is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie research fellow (University Lumière Lyon 2 / LARHRA), where she studies the smell of paint crossing history of art and history of sciences.