1st Edition
Reconstruction and the Synthesis of the Arts in France, 1944–1962
By Nicola Pezolet
Copyright 2018
268 Pages
25 Color & 85 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
268 Pages
25 Color & 85 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Reconstruction and the Synthesis of the Arts in France, 1944–1962 considers the artistic, architectural and bureaucratic shifts that emerged in the troubled aftermath of World War II and in the first years of the cold war. Focused on the modernist networks surrounding Le Corbusier, the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Groupe Espace, as well as on more radical, neo-avant-garde groups such as the... Read more
Introduction
1. Le Corbusier’s "Épopée Plastique" and French Nation Building
2. Art as Social Service: Groupe Espace and French Technocratic Culture
3. Experimental Desire: Asger Jorn and the Network of "Free Artists"
Conclusion
Biography
Nicola Pezolet received a PhD from the History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture programme at MIT in 2013. He is currently Professor in the Art History Department at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
