1st Edition
Painting, Politics and the Struggle for the École de Paris, 1944–1964
By Natalie Adamson
Copyright 2009
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
Painting, Politics and the Struggle for the École de Paris, 1944-1964 is the first book dedicated to the postwar or 'nouvelle' École de Paris. It challenges the customary relegation of the École de Paris to the footnotes, not by arguing for some hitherto 'hidden' merit for the art and ideas associated with this school, but by establishing how and why the École de Paris was a highly significant... Read more
Contents: Introduction: École de Paris: meaning to be determined; A complete change of décor: the Nouvelle École de Paris; An 'individualist internationale': foreign artists and abstract painting; The crisis of realism and reality; The critics of the École de Paris; Is the École de Paris condemned to death?; Conclusion: the mourning of the object; Selected bibliography; Index.
Biography
Natalie Adamson is Lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
