The publication of this fourth album co-published by the Musée du Louvre and Futuropolis Editions is an event in itself! But in addition to the juxtaposition of two great names, Le Ciel au-dessus du Louvre is essentially a new take on the French Revolution, from the perspective of representations of the movement. August 1793. The Louvre-the nation's first museum-has just been inaugurated. Its purpose is to show works relating to the Revolution, and the "official" painters of the...
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Loyal to its mission of public service, the publisher Musée du Louvre Éditions has participated, since 1988, in one of the museum's main missions: the spread of knowledge about its collections, a universal heritage spanning eight thousand years of history. Its catalog, which contains nearly four hundred titles and has included since 2007 "Grande Galerie, le Journal du Louvre," a magazine featuring the latest museum news, boasts an extensive variety of publications.
After Robert Badinter, Toni Morrison, Anselm Kiefer, and Pierre Boulez, Umberto Eco is the Louvre's Special Guest in November 2009. Accumulation, enumeration, litany, inventory, census, nomenclature, catalog, collection, repertory... the history of art and literature is full of collections, suggesting that certain things can be neither expressed...
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