APPROCHE DIALOGIQUE DES TITRES D’OUVRES D’ART
DIALOGICAL APPROACH TO ARTWORK TITLES

Author(s): ZELFANI Rim
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Library and Information Science
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: Title; discourse; context; dialogism; interaction; meaning; reference
Summary/Abstract: : Over the course of art history, we have come to know titles of works that have beencirculated, taken up and transformed, such as Eugène Delacroix's La liberté guidant le peuple (1830)by Yue Minjun (1995), Gérard Rancinan (2008) and P Boy (2019), Edouard Manet's Le déjeuner surl'herbe (1863) at Pablo Picasso (1960), Daniel Spoerri (1983) and Seward Johnson (1994) orLeonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (1503-1506) at Marcel Duchamp (1919), Fernando Botero (1959),Andy Warhol (1963) and Jean Michel Basquiat (1983). Devoted to the interaction between titles ofworks of art, this study is a reflection on the artist's discourse conveyed by the title-name, whichenters into interference with other titles of works of art, both earlier and later. We show how certaintitles are said, taken up again or modified, thereby signalling other titles, other discourses. In theencounter of discourse-titles, the title of a work of art is enriched by new semantic potentialities. Theconcept of Bakhtinian dialogism (1975 [1929]) will be used to examine the interdiscursive dialogismof art titles. The proposed analysis focuses on the mechanisms of reappropriation, reformulation andcirculation of certain artistic titles.

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