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This electricity produced by two hundred reassembled brains. It’s 7 p.m. Friday in a Uni Mail amphitheater in Geneva. We imagined a cenacle, it’s a pot that overflows. Battalions of schoolbags flocked there to defend the history of art, whose disappearance in the curriculum of the Geneva matu is scheduled for 2027. In the public, the casting has allure, with grunts from the Republic, like the ex-national socialist councilor and mayor of Geneva Manuel Tornare, this cosmopolitan dandy of Rainer Michael Mason, legendary boss of the Prints Cabinet of the Museum of Art and of history, students in brigades, teachers of all generations.
The crowd of a sedition evening. The alma mater is boiling. This is what the brand new Association for the History of Art wanted. So, we listen to the tenors of this reasoned anger. On the front line, Frédéric Elsig, professor at the University of Geneva, recalls the framework – yet another mature reform – and a cruel chronology: on September 17, art history was indeed part of the official timetable; saber cut, on October 6, it was removed as a component of the fundamental discipline Visual Arts; On November 7, teachers sent an indignant letter to Anne Hiltpold, State Councilor responsible for the department of public education.