Des jouets et des hommes. Etrurie sous la pression de l’imaginaire

sous la pression de l’imaginaire

Texts in Spanish

inspired by the most recent works in sinology and social history

hieroglyphics

“Documents from the Ancient Near East - Epigraphy I”

Des jouets et des hommes. Etrurie sous la pression de l’imaginaireFrom Antiquity to the present day, the toy is an extraordinary distillation of culture and conservatism. It reproduces the adult world through miniaturization and follows its evolutions. Through this object, the child learns by imitating his parents. However, it is more an access to play than to the reality of the "Adults: a compromise between reality and illusion, it increasingly translates today an imaginary universe, of which it is both the tool