France and the Visual Arts Since 1945 : Remapping European Postwar and Contemporary Art.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Beyond the Clichés of "Decadence" and the Myths of "Triumph": Rewriting France in the Stories of Postwar Western Art -- 1. Art and Communism in Postwar France: The Impossible Task of Defining a French Socialist Realism -- 2. The Art of Community in Isidore Isou's Traité de baveet d'éternité (1951) -- 3. Their Paris, Our Paris: A Situationist dérive -- 4. Pinot Gallizio's Cavern: Re-Excavating Postwar Paris -- 5. Agnès Varda's du Côté de la Côte: Place as "Sociological Phenomenon" -- 6. Cybernetic Bordello: Nicolas Schöffer's Aesthetic Hygiene -- 7. Nouveau Réalisme in its "Longue Durée": From the Nineteenth-Century Chiffonnier to the Remembrance of the Second World War -- 8. Decelerating Le Mouvement of Paris with Vision in Motion-Motion in Vision of Antwerp: Movement, Time, and Kinetic Art, 1955-1959 -- 9. The Public Art of Jean Tinguely 1959-1991: Between Performance and Permanence -- 10. Jean-Jacques Lebel's Revolution: The French Happening, Surrealism, and the Algerian War -- 11. Reimagining Communism after 1968: The Case of Grapus -- 12. Autogestion in French Art after 1968: A Case Study of the Sociological Art Collective -- 13. André Cadere's Disorderly Conduct -- 14. Places of Memory and Locus:ernest Pignon-Ernest -- 15. Questioning the Void: Sophie Calle's Archival Subversions -- 16. Claire Fontaine, Redemptions -- Index.

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