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Zusatztext This invaluable collection confirms the undeniable richness and diversity of post-war French art. More importantly! it reveals the distinctive political and intellectual commitments of key artists and movements! and helps combat the prejudices of a modernist art history still too often narrated from the vantage point of the United States. Informationen zum Autor Catherine Dossin is Associate Professor of Art History, Purdue University, USA.A new perspective on the place of France and French artists in the visual arts after 1945. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Me...
