TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kisiel,Marine
TI  - A biography choreographed by fragments: On Degas Danse Dessin by Paul Valéry
PY  - 2021///.
							
N1  - 79
N2  - When Paul Valéry published Degas Danse Dessin in 1936, he was reminiscing upon his friendship with Edgar Degas. The book, which vindicates discontinuity and aggregation, was first published as a series of loose sheets, and advertised itself as a “kind of monologue” where Valéry promised to deliver memories and reflections. In fact, the work sketches a kind of pas de deux between Degas and Valéry, text and image, drawing and dance, where the author associates the art of the painter and the mechanisms of creation with a “sacred dance” and connects drawing, understood to be a series of signs, with a form of written language Valéry is in charge of decoding. This paper shows how the DDD, a sort of biography choreographed in fragments, links two forms of creation – that of Degas, that of Valéry – and analyses through the “dance of the painter” the spiritual dance Valéry puts at the heart of everything
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-romantisme-2021-3-page-84?lang=en
ER  -