Claire Fontaine, redemptions / Liam Considine. Art and communism in postwar France: the impossible task of defining a French socialist realism / Cecile Pichon-Bonin and Lucia Piccioni -- The art of community in Isidore Isou's Traite de bave et d'eternite (1951) / Marin Sarve-Tarr -- Their Paris, our Paris: a situationist derive / Emmanuel Guy -- Pinot Gallizio's Cavern: re-excavating postwar Paris / Sophie Cras -- Agnes Varda's Du cote de la cote: place as "sociological phenomenon" / Rosemary O'Neill -- Cybernetic Bordello: Nicolas Schoffer's aesthetic hygiene / Herve Vanel -- Nouveau realisme in its "longue duree": From the nineteenth-century chiffonnier to the remembrance of the Second World War / Deborah Laks -- Decelerating le mouvement of Paris with Vision in Motion -- Motion in Vision of Antwerp: movement, time, and kinetic art, 1955-1959 / Noemi Joly -- The public art of Jean Tinguely 1959-1991: between performance and permanence / Elisabeth Tiso -- Jean-Jacques Lebel's Revolution: the French happening, surrealism, and the Algerian War / Laurel Fredrickson -- Reimagining communism after 1968: the case of Grapus / Sami Siegelbaum -- Autogestion in French art after 1968: a case study of the sociological art collective / Ruth Erickson -- Andre Cadere's Disorderly conduct / Lily Woodruff -- Places of memory and locus: Ernest Pignon-Ernest / Jacopo Galimberti -- Questioning the void: Sophie Calle's Archival subversions / Rachel Boate -- Claire Fontaine, redemptions / Liam Considine.
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. They introduce greater depth and specificity to familiar artists and movements, such as Lettrism, Situationist International or Nouveau Realisme, while bringing to the fore lesser known artists and groups, including GRAPUS, the Sociological Art Collective, and Nicolas Schoffer.
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