L'image de l'autre. Noirs, juifs, Musulmans et Gitans dans l'art occidental des Temps modernes. Celte Philoctetes refuses to listen to

Philoctetes refuses to listen to the political reasons that lead Odysseus and Neoptolemus to remember him: to the Necessity of the oppressors

allows us to see a film more than three thousand years old unfold in a profusion of images

use of base materials

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

some 200 works

L'image de l'autre. Noirs, juifs, Musulmans et Gitans dans l'art occidental des Temps modernes. Celte Philoctetes refuses to listen toApproaching the Encounter as it presents itself in the field of the visible is not an easy task, because the Other does not willingly expose himself to the gaze of the Same. Jews, Bohemians, Blacks, Muslims: the four figures of otherness that are the subject of this study bear witness to this. Faced with its movements of withdrawal and its evasions, it was necessary, in order to be able to represent it, to "un cover the Other, to construct it and