Published by the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), the journal Perspective is dedicated every six months to a transversal thematic. As a reference tool, it publishes original, historiographical and critical texts by leading specialists on the approaches, orientations and issues that are the focus of current international research in art history.

On November 28, the Palais de Tokyo welcomes the magazine Perspective for the launch of its new issue “Raconter”, as well as one of its contributors; Hortense Belhôte.

Wherever an image appears, whether fixed or animated, figurative, aniconic, material or mental, a history and a way of arranging the narrative emerge. The image and the art object relate, and these narratives do not cease to generate narratives: fictions or legends, scientific articles or dreamy ramblings, dialogues of works between them or soliloquies of spectators. Whether it is the narratives on which the works of art are based, those constituted by their viewers or the narratives created by art historians, this issue intends to seize the act of telling as a fertile heuristic tool. Thus, the specialists gathered here question, from the Middle Ages to the present, the relationships of different media – image, printed text, exhibition or video – and artistic mediums – settings, manuscripts, painting, architecture, performance, comics, sequential arts, cinema… – to history and art histories.