Bryant University Bryant Digital Repository English and Cultural Studies Faculty English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles Publications and Research Spring 2010 Narratives, Images and Objects of Piety and Loss in Brittany Maura Coughlin Bryant University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/eng_jou Recommended Citation Coughlin, Maura, "Narratives, Images and Objects of Piety and Loss in Brittany" (2010). English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles. Paper 75. https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/eng_jou/75 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications and Research at Bryant Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles by an authorized administrator of Bryant Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. MAURA COUGHLIN Narratives, Images and Objects of Piety and Loss in Brittany Résumé Abstract Comment les études en culture matérielle peuvent- How can material culture studies offer new elles offrir de nouvelles perspectives sur l’étude de perspectives on the study of late-19th-century art l’art de la fin du XIXe siècle en France ? Comment in France? How can the work of contemporary le travail d’artistes contemporains peut-il animer artists animate a collection of historical and une collection d’objets historiques et particuliers à locally specific objects? This paper takes up these un lieu donné ? Cet article s’attaque à ces questions questions by a close reading of an installation au moyen d’une lecture attentive d’une installation in St.-Brieuc, along with the collections of à Saint-Brieuc, de pair avec les collections de two ecomuseums in Brittany and several other deux écomusées en Bretagne et de plusieurs autres historical sites in terms of a politics of display and sites historiques, sous l’angle des politiques de la commemoration.