Voir, lire et dire

Based on 15 years of research into the relationship between schools and museums, this book proposes a didactic framework that explores the reception of works of art in these two institutions, by developing the links between literary texts and paintings. While the activity of reading may differ depending on the medium and the institution, the activity of interpretation is based on knowledge of how to relate clues to each other, how to relate knowledge to understand the clues, and how to process implicit or explicit references to other works, trends, etc., which are common to both.
The author thus lays the foundations for teaching and cultural mediation aimed at training readers and visitors to art museums who are capable of appropriating works, taking account of the contexts in which they are received, but also of appreciating them and relating them in a critical and enlightened way. In this way, the museum is no longer seen as a place of cultural and social exclusion, but as a place of inclusion, as long as the mediation is rethought and linked to the visitors' experience.