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Arts asiatiques - Année 2001 - Volume 56 - Numéro 1 - Pages 45-60Le Campa et une cité-État de la péninsule Malaise, le Panpan, ont partagé, au moins au IXe siècle, un certain nombre de formes artistiques qui apparaissent dans le décor de certains temples mais aussi dans certaines images. L'époque - ce IXe siècle - n'est pas anodine et les explique. C'est au cours de ce siècle, en effet, que les échanges internationaux s'intensifièrent de manière spectaculaire en Asie. Ce que l'on appelle parfois la Route maritime de la Soie prend alors le pas sur sa contrepartie terrestre, et les contacts interculturels qui s'ensuivent entre les différents mondes de l'Asie vont être à l'origine de très nombreux transferts de formes, car il s'agit bien de cela et non pas de relations artistiques à proprement parler. Des manières de faire, de concevoir, furent transmises d'un point à un autre de l'Asie, parfois adoptées telles quelles mais très souvent modifiées, transformées, adaptées, assimilées jusqu'à donner naissance, dans le meilleur des cas, à des styles originaux dont la filiation peut être très difficile à déterminer. Ces styles existent au Campa, qui assimila une grande part des influences artistiques qu'il reçut pour les faire siennes ; il n'en est pas de même au Panpan, qui les accueillit avec autant de ferveur, mais sans rien assimiler, parce que les conditions politiques d'une cité-Etat, même prospère, ne s'y prêtaient sans doute pas, et aussi parce que sa situation géographique en péninsule Malaise la mettait au cœur d'un réseau de transfert de formes trop complexe pour qu'aucune d'entre elles puisse être solidement intégrée à un vocabulaire stylistique original que la région ne posséda de fait jamais.
During the ninth century Champa and a city-state of the Malay Peninsula, Panpan, shared a certain number of artistic forms which appear in the decor of some temples, but also in certain images. The fact that this occurred during the ninth century is not mere chance, for it is during this period that international exchanges intensified in truly spectacular manner in Asia. What is sometimes called the Maritime Silk Road came to surpass in importance the land route, and the intercultural contacts which resulted between the different Asian worlds led to the transfer of numerous forms, although not to artistic relations as such. Ways of doing and conceiving were transmitted from one point in Asia to another. Sometimes they were adopted without change, but often they were modified, transformed, adapted and assimilated; in the best instances, they even gave birth to original styles whose filiation may be difficult to trace. These styles may be found in Champa, which assimilated a good share of the various artistic influences. The same is not true of Panpan, which welcomed them just as enthusiastically but did not assimilate them, no doubt because the political conditions of a city-state, even a prosperous one, did not facilitate such assimilation, but also because its geographic situation on the Malay Peninsula placed it at the heart of a network of the transfer of forms too complex for any one of them to be thoroughly integrated into an original stylistic vocabulary that the region in fact never possessed.
16 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
During the ninth century Champa and a city-state of the Malay Peninsula, Panpan, shared a certain number of artistic forms which appear in the decor of some temples, but also in certain images. The fact that this occurred during the ninth century is not mere chance, for it is during this period that international exchanges intensified in truly spectacular manner in Asia. What is sometimes called the Maritime Silk Road came to surpass in importance the land route, and the intercultural contacts which resulted between the different Asian worlds led to the transfer of numerous forms, although not to artistic relations as such. Ways of doing and conceiving were transmitted from one point in Asia to another. Sometimes they were adopted without change, but often they were modified, transformed, adapted and assimilated; in the best instances, they even gave birth to original styles whose filiation may be difficult to trace. These styles may be found in Champa, which assimilated a good share of the various artistic influences. The same is not true of Panpan, which welcomed them just as enthusiastically but did not assimilate them, no doubt because the political conditions of a city-state, even a prosperous one, did not facilitate such assimilation, but also because its geographic situation on the Malay Peninsula placed it at the heart of a network of the transfer of forms too complex for any one of them to be thoroughly integrated into an original stylistic vocabulary that the region in fact never possessed.
16 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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