The Myth of Nouveau Réalisme: Art and the Performative in Postwar France

by Kaira Marie Cabaanas and Kaira M. Cabanas

On October 27, 1960, art critic Pierre Restany named a group of Paris-based artists the "Nouveaux R?alistes" (New Realists) in a founding declaration that stated, "The New Realists recognize their collective singularity. New Realism = new perceptual approaches of the real." Besides Restany, this group included Arman, Fran?ois Dufr?ne, Raymond Hains, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and Jacques Villegl?. Their work incorporated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300181205
• ISBN13: 9780300181203
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.2"