L'Orient des Langues au XXe siècle. Aragon, Ollier, barthes, Macé. Beaux-arts The work of art and

The work of art and science and the exhibition that bear its title evoke what it was and what

Les traces de cette aventure sont encore visibles partout en Europe dans les chroniques

on the West Bank of Thebes

Christian Dotremont

this work is exhibited for the first time alongside the sculptor's many works on the same subject

L'Orient des Langues au XXe siècle. Aragon, Ollier, barthes, Macé. Beaux-arts The work of art and"Today there is no more elsewhere (except a freshly felled forest, or a book unearthed by chance), Marco Polo would not leave Venice, he would learn languages. , writes Grard Mac in Leon de chinois. The exhaustion of a long tradition that was built around an essentially geographical elsewhere giving rise to all travel literature is giving way to another type of journey whose destination is a foreign and distant language. Indeed, today, for many French