Resumen de L'ordre et le chaos: le lit comme espace pictural et matériel textile
Order and chaos: the bed as pictorial space and textile material.
This article investigates the bed as a textile object and pictorial space from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Though garments have been widely studied, art history research in textiles has so far overlooked beds. The authors explore questions of textility, in particular the oscillation between textile formlessness and regularity. Starting with the empty, unmade bed as a subject in the first half of the nineteenth century (Adolph Menzel, Eugène Delacroix, Joseph Mallord, William Turner), the authors relate textile formlessness to modernity and discuss permutations of textile modes of order and chaos (Jean-Honoré Fragonard, "Lit à la Polonaise", Adolf Loos, Tracey Emin). They conclude by hypothesizing a link between crumpled bedding, abstraction and the postmodern image (Robert Rauschenberg, Sonia Delaunay).
