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André Desvallées
André Desvallées (1931 – 5 June 2024) was a French museologist and Honorary General Conservator of Heritage. For 18 years, from 1959 to 1977, he was assistant to Georges Henri Rivière, considered the "father of French museology". He had a leading role in the development of this discipline, and in the creation and definition of several concepts, including "New Museology." An active member of the International Committee of Museology, the ICOFOM, he was the author of a hundred books and articles in the areas of ethnology and museology. Biography Desvallées was born in Gouville-sur-Mer, Normandy in 1931. He moved to the suburbs of Paris to attend secondary school at the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine. His first vocation was cinema: he developed the admission exam at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, IDHEC, currently La Fémis, an acronym corresponding to his former name, ''Fondation européenne des métiers de l'image et du son'' (European Foundation for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museologist
Museology (also called museum studies or museum science) is the study of museums. It explores the history of museums and their role in society, as well as the activities they engage in, including curating, preservation, public programming, and education. Terminology The words that are used to describe the study of museums vary depending on language and geography. For example, while "museology" is becoming more prevalent in English, it is most commonly used to refer to the study of museums in French (), Spanish (), German (), Italian (), and Portuguese () – while English speakers more often use the term "museum studies" to refer to that same field of study. When referring to the day-to-day operations of museums, other European languages typically use derivatives of the Greek "" (French: , Spanish: , German: , Italian: , Portuguese: ), while English speakers typically use the term "museum practice" or "operational museology" Development of the field The development of museolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Henri Rivière
Georges-Henri Rivière (1897–1985) was a French museologist, and innovator of modern French ethnographic museology practices. Biography Rivière studied music until 1925, when he began museum studies at the École du Louvre from which he graduated in 1928. During the following years, he cared for the D. David-Weill collection, which included Chinese porcelains, Greek and Roman antiquities, and European decorative arts and paintings. In 1928, Rivière curated his first show of ancient American art at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and joined Paul Rivet as his vice-director to begin the renovation of the dusty Musée du Trocadéro, which was reintroduced to the public as a fully modernized Musée de l'Homme in 1938. In 1929 and 1930, Rivière was on the editorial board of ''Documents'', to which he also contributed articles, such as “The Ethnographical museum of the Trocadéro" (1929, issue 1), as well as chronicles on popular culture such as “Religion and ‘Fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gouville-sur-Mer
Gouville-sur-Mer (, literally ''Gouville on Sea'') is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, the former commune of Boisroger was merged into Gouville-sur-Mer. On 1 January 2019, the former communes of Anneville-sur-Mer, Montsurvent and Servigny were merged into Gouville-sur-Mer. 3 December 2018 Population Heraldry Climate See also *Communes of the Manche department
The following is a list of the 445 communes of the Manche department of France.
The communes cooperate in the ...
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Institut Des Hautes études Cinématographiques
The Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC; "Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies") is a French film school, founded during World War II under the leadership of Marcel L'Herbier who was its president from 1944 to 1969. IDHEC offered training for directors and producers, cameramen, sound technicians, editors, art directors and costume designers. It became highly influential, and many prominent film-makers received their training there including Paulo Rocha, Louis Malle, Alain Resnais, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claire Denis, Peter Lilienthal, Volker Schlöndorff, Andrzej Żuławski, René Vautier, Andre Weinfeld, Mostafa Derkaoui, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Claude Sautet, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Patrice Leconte, Costa Gavras, Theo Angelopoulos, Jesús Franco, Omar Amiralay, Rithy Panh, Arnaud Desplechin, Claude Miller Claude Miller (20 February 1942 – 4 April 2012) was a French film director, producer and screenwriter. Life and career Claude Miller w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Fémis
La Fémis (French: ''École nationale supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son''; "National Institute for Professional Image and Sound", formerly known as the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, IDHEC) is a French grande école and the film and television school of PSL Research University. ''FEMIS'' () is an acronym for ''Fondation européenne pour les Métiers de l'Image et du Son'' ("European Foundation for the Professions of Image and Sound"). Based in Paris, it offers courses balanced between artistic research, professional development and technical training. History From 1944 to 1985, the IDHEC ( Institut des hautes études cinématographiques) was the main French film school — training 1,439 French and foreign film professionals. In 1985, the school was restructured under the supervision of the then Minister of Culture Jack Lang and La Fémis was created in 1986. Originally, scriptwriter Jean-Claude Carrière was its president and Jack Gajos wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Positif (magazine)
is a French film magazine, founded in 1952 by Bernard Chardère in Lyon. It is one of two major French-language film magazines, created several months after . The magazine is headquartered in Paris and is published monthly. Traditionally, has served as a counterpoint to , focusing on film themes and scripts, in contrast to politics and aesthetics. In the 1950s, was associated with the non-Communist left (while originally held political affiliations with the right). Today, is a neutral publication run by volunteers. The magazine was edited by Éric Losfeld from 1959. After publishing an article about Orson Welles in 1963, Michel Ciment became a member of the magazine's editorial committee. In 1966, he was promoted to editor in chief, a post he held until his death. has been printed by different publishers throughout the years and is currently published by Actes Sud in collaboration with the Institut Lumière. See also * List of film periodicals Film periodicals com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
École Du Louvre
The École du Louvre () is a selective institution of higher education and prestigious ''grande école'' located in the Aile de Flore of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France. It is dedicated to the study of archaeology, art history, anthropology and epigraphy. Admission is based on a competitive entrance exam after secondary school (''lycée''), though candidates may also apply after two or three years of university studies in the subjects of history, classics, literature, geography, philosophy and art. The school offers an undergraduate programme, a master's programme and a doctoral programme as well as a preparation class for civil service entrance exams. History The École du Louvre was created in 1882 with the mission to "extract from the collections the knowledge they contain, and to train curators, missionaries and excavators". The school was originally dedicated to archaeology, but soon expanded to related disciplines, such as history of art, anthropology and ancient l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. * January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film ''City Lights'' receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
