Vallotton's Intimacies: Give and Take in the Bourgeois Marriage
A Maussian reading of Félix Vallotton's Intimacies (Intimités), the ten woodcuts of 1898: how gift, debt and counter-gift corrode the bourgeois marriage.
“Bon Vin”: The Art of Raising a Glass, Between Tribute and Caricature
"Bon Vin" or (Good Wine): behind its cheerful surface, this Épinal print reveals the pleasures, excesses and social codes of working-class France in the 1800s.