France and the visual arts since 1945 remapping European postwar and contemporary art edited by Catherine Dossin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dossin, Catherine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, French--20th century.

Art, French.

Art, French--21st century.

Art and society--France--History--20th century.

Art and society.

Art and society--France--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2018.

Summary:

"Taking on the myth of France's creative exhaustion following World War II, this collection of essays brings together an international team of scholars, whose research offers English readers a rich and complex overview of the place of France and French artists in the visual arts since 1945. Addressing a wide range of artistic practices, spanning over seven decades, and using different methodologies, their contributions cover ground charted and unknown. They introduce greater depth and specificity to familiar artists and movements, such as Lettrism, Situationist International or Nouveau Rǎlisme, while bringing to the fore lesser known artists and groups, including GRAPUS, the Sociological Art Collective, and Nicolas Schf̲fer. Collectively, they stress the political dimensions and social ambitions of the art produced in France at the time, deconstruct the traditional geography of the French art world, and highlight the multiculturalism of the French art scene that resulted from its colonial past and the constant flux of artistic travels and migrations. Ultimately, the book contributes to a story of postwar art in which France can be inscribed not as a main or sub chapter, but rather as a vector in the wider constellation of modern and contemporary art."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Taking on the myth of France's creative exhaustion following World War II, this collection of essays brings together an international team of scholars, whose research offers English readers a rich and complex overview of the place of France and French artists in the visual arts since 1945. Addressing a wide range of artistic practices, spanning over seven decades, and using different methodologies, their contributions cover ground charted and unknown. They introduce greater depth and specificity to familiar artists and movements, such as Lettrism, Situationist International or Nouveau Réalisme, while bringing to the fore lesser known artists and groups, including GRAPUS, the Sociological Art Collective, and Nicolas Schöffer. Collectively, they stress the political dimensions and social ambitions of the art produced in France at the time, deconstruct the traditional geography of the French art world, and highlight the multiculturalism of the French art scene that resulted from its colonial past and the constant flux of artistic travels and migrations. Ultimately, the book contributes to a story of postwar art in which France can be inscribed not as a main or sub chapter, but rather as a vector in the wider constellation of modern and contemporary art

Contents:

Art and communism in postwar France : the impossible task of defining a French socialist realism / Lucia Piccioni and Cécile Pichon-Bonin

Decelerating Le Mouvement of Paris with Vision in motion-Motion in vision of Antwerp : movement, time, and kinetic art, 1955-1959 / Noémi Joly

Claire Fontaine, Redemptions / Liam Considine

1. Beyond the Clichés of "Decadence" and the Myths of "Triumph": Rewriting France in the Stories of Postwar Western Art

Catherine Dossin, Purdue University, USA

2. Art and Communism in Postwar France: The Impossible Task of Defining a French Socialist Realism

Lucia Piccioni, Center for Italian Modern Art of New York, USA, and Cécile Pichon-Bonin, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France

3. The Art of Community in Isidore Isou's Traité de bave et d'éternité (1951)

Marin Sarvé-Tarr, University of Chicago, USA

4. Their Paris, Our Paris: a Situationist dérive

Emmanuel Guy, Parsons Paris, The New School, France

5. Pinot Gallizio's Cavern: Re-Excavating Postwar Paris

Sophie Cras, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

6. Agnès Varda's du Côté de la Côte: Place as 'Sociological Phenomenon'

Rosemary O'Neill, Parsons - The New School, USA

7. Cybernetic Bordello: Nicolas Schöffer's Aesthetic Hygiene

Hervé Vanel, American University of Paris, France

8. Nouveau Réalisme in its "Longue Durée": From the 19th Century Chiffonnier to the Remembrance of World War II

Déborah Laks, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, France

9. Decelerating Le Mouvement of Paris with Vision in Motion - Motion in Vision of Antwerp: Movement, Time, and Kinetic Art, 1955-1959

Noémi Joly, Paris-Sorbonne University, France

10. The Public Art of Jean Tinguely 1959-1991: Between Performance and Permanence

Elisabeth Tiso, Graduate Center CUNY, USA

11. Jean-Jacques Lebel's Revolution: The French Happening, Surrealism, and the Algerian War

Laurel Fredrickson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA

12. Reimagining Communism after 1968: The Case of Grapus

Sami Siegelbaum, UCLA, USA

13. Autogestion in French Art after 1968: A Case Study of the Sociological Art Collective

Ruth Erickson, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA

14. André Cadere's Disorderly Conduct

Lily Woodruff, Michigan State University, USA

15. Places of Memory and Locus: Ernest Pignon Ernest

Jacopo Galimberti, The University of Manchester, UK

16. Questioning the Void: Sophie Calle's Archival Subversions

Rachel Boate, New York University, USA

17. Claire Fontaine, Redemptions

Liam Considine, Pratt Institute, USA

Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781501341557

1501341553

9781501341533

1501341537

9781501341540

1501341545

OCLC:

1049793926