Les gestes du chef‑d’œuvre. Rituels et savoir‑faire dans la France du XVIIIe siècle
Abstrak
Based on two rarely compared corpora — the archives of the police court of Rennes (mid-eighteenth century) and the travel diaries of mining engineering students (early nineteenth century) — this article offers a situated history of the gestures and rites of artisanal excellence. It shows, on the one hand, how a key moment in the metallurgical operating chain (the cupellation) was sacralized and protected by secrecy ; on the other hand, how the ceremony of the masterpiece in the Rennes craft communities stages a secrecy of manufacturing, legally framed, and yet adaptable to the changes of an expanding market (the case of master tailors). Finally, it proposes to go beyond the overly frustrated tacit/explicit opposition in favor of an analysis of the economies of the utterance and the recording media (image/word/gesture) that make the skills practicable, transmissible and opposable. The discussion is grounded in the conceptual framework of the “modes of existence of technical gesture,” where the social inscription of gesture, its technical and legal guarantees, and its operative regime form a specific gestural milieu.
Penulis (1)
Anne-Françoise Garçon
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2025
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.4000/159ps
- Akses
- Open Access ✓