The Illusion of an Endless Summer
Californian Design, Sun and Mirages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3869894 |
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| Authors | Lilian Froger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 51 |
| Pages | 129-144 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critique d’art (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1246-8258 • E-ISSN: 2265-9404 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/critiquedart.36760 |
| OpenAlex | W2905282542 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
that was created in 2016 by the collaboration between the Institut franais, the Institut national d'histoire de l'art and Critique d'art. The two previous years, the grant enabled Julie Crenn to travel to South Africa in order to write about the country's women artists 1 , and gave Cllia Zernik the opportunity to explore the form and status of art festivals in Japan. 2 Each journey results in the publication of a long article in French and English. After three years, it is safe to say that this grant -whose goal it is to support the mobility of art critics, as well as the circulation of their ideas and the translation of their essays -offers contemporary authors a unique space for thought and visibility. As this essay is published, a call for applications has been opened for 2019, which will allow a critic to receive this grant created in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and the Direction gnrale de la cration artistique. We hope to receive many applications! The ideas Lilian Froger develops in the following essay were prompted by the coincidence of three exhibitions that were held respectively in Helsinki, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and which all "[explore] the relationship between design, California and the imaginaries it evokes". Far from being only a way of manufacturing objects and creating spaces for living and working, design also shapes behaviours, imaginaries, and ultimately societies themselves. Through the close attention he pays to the museographic devices of each one of the exhibitions, Lilian Froger highlights the discrepancies between the different narratives they produce. Some operate by subdivisions and specialisations ("modernist" Southern California vs. geek Northern California), others, on the contrary examine junctions, quotations, the presence of The Illusion of an Endless Summer: Californian Design, Sun and Mirages
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