Aube des chairs et viscères. Magazines Table manners and figures of

Table manners and figures of commensality

those preserved in the Department of Prints and Photography at the Bibliothèque nationale de France have the merit of presenting a homogeneous collection of drawings sketched on the spot and annotations made by the artist over the days between 1927 and 1946

suant sous son melon

always marked by the joy of painting

Revisiting the texts of the chroniclers who attempted to account for them

Aube des chairs et viscères. Magazines Table manners and figures ofA doctor and professor of cardiology, Martial Hamon possesses a cultural heritage that places a strong emphasis on anatomy and medical imaging. The painter he has become has chosen as his field of expression living matter and its visceral, dreamlike, and unconscious constructionsthose that haunted the imagination of the demiurge applied to the creation of man. At this point in his career, the artist necessarily provokes writing and poetry. From this