Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Fonds Melvin Charney, 1947-2012
•    Série(s): Projects, 1955-2012
•      Projet: Un dictionnaire, 1970-2001

Personnes et institutions:

• Melvin Charney (architect)
• Melvin Charney (archive creator)

Titre:

Un dictionnaire

Date:

1970-2001

Niveau de description archivistique:
Project

Collation:

• 0.10 l.m. of textual records
  31 drawings
  26 reprographic copies
  21 photographic materials

Présentation du contenu:

UN DICTIONNAIRE consists of black and white photographs of wire-service newspaper articles selected by Charney for their depiction of “people and buildings caught in upheavals”. Charney described these images as “monuments which are created by events outside the confines of architectural institutions”, meaning that buildings and locations assume a “monumental connotation” when they become associated with a significant event. UN DICTIONNAIRE consists of 300 plates, each plate a photograph that “traces the contours of relations which affect our grasp of the significance of buildings”. UN DICTIONNAIRE was presented as an installation at Galerie Catherine & Stéphane de Beyrie in Paris in 1994 and at the Canadian Pavilion of the 7th International Architectural Exhibition in Venice in 2000 as well as at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2001-2002. The publication “Tracking images : Melvin Charney, un dictionnaire...” related to this project was also realized in collaboration the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2000.

This project series contains correspondence, notes, photographs, installations plans and exhibition space plans related for the aforementioned exhibitions in Paris, at the Venice Biennale and in Montréal. It also contains reprints of panels shown outside the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Source: Montréal : Musée d’art contemporain. (1979) Melvin Charney: Oeuvres 1970-1979. (p. 21-28)

Numéro de référence:

AP041.S1.1970.D2

Mode de classement:

Material in this series was likely kept in it's original order when it was first processed upon it's arrival at CCA.

Langue et écriture des documents:

• English, French

Sources complémentaires:

• For the plates of the black and white photographs of wire-service newspaper articles of the UN DICTIONNAIRE project, see DR1999:0003:001-041 and DR2004:0001:001-043 in the Prints & Drawings collection. More material related to this project can also be found under the series AP041.S5.D1 Press coverage and the series AP041.S6.D1 Notebooks and sketchbooks.

Contient:

• DR2023:0012, Plates from the series 0.1 and 0.2, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0013, Plates from the series 0.4 and 0.8, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0014, Plate 1, series 1, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0015, Plates from the series 4 and 7, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0016, Plates from the series 9, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0017, Plates from the series 10 and 12, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0018, Plates from the series 14 and 15, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0019, Plates from the series 17 and 18, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0020, Plates from the series 19 and 20, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0021, Plates from the series 21 and 22, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0022, Plates from the series 24, 27 and 28, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0023, Plates from the series 30 and 32, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0024, Plates from the series 33 and 34, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0025, Plates from the series 35 and 38, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0026, Plates from the series 41 and 42, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0027, Plates from the series 44 and 45, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0028, Plates from the series 46 and 48, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0029, Plates from the series 49, 50, 52, and 58, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0030, Plates from the series 60 and 63, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0031, Plates from the series 64, 65, and 68, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0032, Plates from the series 72, 74, and 100, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0033, Unmonted reproductions of the plates from various series, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2023:0034, Plates from the series 72, 74, and 100, Un dictionnaire, circa 1970-2000
• DR2012:0012:004, Plans for the installation of display panels for the project, 2000
• DR2012:0012:028, Plans for the installation of plates from the "Un dictionnaire" project in a gallery setting, 1970-2002
• DR2012:0012:044, Plans for installing the project "Un dictionnaire" at the Galerie Catherine & Stéphane de Beyrie, 1993-1999
• DR2012:0012:046:029, Plans for the installation of the work titled "Un Dictionnaire", 2000
• DR2012:0012:047:009, Installation plans, Un dictionnaire, 1970- 2001
• DR2012:0012:047:032, Plans for the layout of an exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, circa 1970-2001
• DR2012:0012:047:038, Installation plans for Un dictionnaire, 1970-2001
• DR2012:0012:061:003, Aerial photograph of downtown Ottawa possibly used as reference, Un dictionnaire, circa 1960-2012
• DR2012:0012:074:001, Correspondence, gallery and installation plans, Un dictionnaire, 2006-2007
• DR2012:0012:079:002, Texts for labels for the installation, Un dictionnaire, 1999-2002
• DR2012:0012:079:003, Notes for Un dictionnaire..., 1974-2002
• DR2012:0012:099:017, Correspondence, gallery and installation plans, Un dictionnaire, 2001
• DR2012:0012:106:001, Photographs related to the "Un dictionnaire" series, and an unidentified film positive, circa 1970-2001
• DR2012:0015:026:002, Panel of a photomontage of various houses architecture possibly for Un dictionnaire, circa 1970
• DR2012:0015:026:003, Various press clippings possible for Un dictionnaire, circa 1970
• DR2012:0012:075:001:006, Panels with copies of press clippings, Un Dictionnaire, circa 1970
• DRCON2001:0013:001-003, Reprints of panels shown outside the Canadian Pavilion of the project, 2000