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Zusatztext 'O'Neill develops the construct of the Ecole de Nice and fleshes out the scene on the French Riviera at a seminal moment in French visual arts. There is no existing study that even vaguely approaches what this book provides.' Katherine Manthorne! The Graduate Center! CUNY! USA 'Scholars of twentieth-century French visual culture and tourism will find O'Neill's Art and Visual Culture on the French Riviera! 1956-1971 an interesting and important new contribution to the fields... I believe the book is an essential and deeply interesting source on the neglected topic of the Ecole de Nice and its diverse artists! and recommend it to historians of contemporary French tourism! art and visual culture.' H-France 'In her excellent study of what was! arguably! a southern artistic revolution! Rosemary O'Neill offers a detailed history of how the Ecole de Nice evolved... O'Neill draws on a vast range of primary sources! many not readily accessible to today's readers: contemporary newspaper and magazine articles! private correspondence! catalogues! archival materials! manifestos! and recorded interviews. In addition! the work is enhanced by the inclusion of interspersed black and white photographs and an inset of thirteen colour plates.' French Studies '... O'Neill's use of her interviews with the artists and critics! and of films! recordings! writings and publications from the period! give her book its distinctive authority and evocative atmosphere.' Modern & Contemporary France Informationen zum Autor Rosemary O'Neill is Associate Professor of Art History at Parsons The New School for Design! USA. Klappentext The Riviera in the 1950s and 1960s was culturally rich with modernist icons such as Matisse and Picasso in residence! but also a burgeoning tourist culture! that established the Cote d'Azur as a center of indigenous artists associated with Nouveau Realisme! Fluxus! and Supports-Surfaces. This title offers a study of this important movement in art. Zusammenfassung The Riviera in the 1950s and 1960s was culturally rich with modernist icons such as Matisse and Picasso in residence, but also a burgeoning tourist culture, that established the Cote d'Azur as a center of indigenous artists associated with Nouveau Realisme, Fluxus, and Supports-Surfaces. This title offers a study of this important movement in art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Postwar Nice: the Eden of the hexagon; Towards an Ecole de Nice! 1956-1960; Nouveaux réalistes Niçois and the formation of an Ecole de Nice; Total Art and Fluxus in Nice; The new generation of the Ecole de Nice: Bernar Venet! Claude Gilli! Robert Malaval! Guy Rottier; Painting and focal dispersion: Claude Viallat and the Niçois painters of supports/surfaces; Afterward; Bibliography; Index. ...
