Under the heading of the battles led in favor of equality for all in cultural matters, the name of Gaëtan Picon may be mentioned, as we are told by Agnès Callu, the author of a dissertation about this man, one of “history’s vanquished.” Picon is said to have consistently tried to impose an elitist ...
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Letter of Seminar
the Economies of Art 2009-2010
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# 36-2 | An Elitist Aesthetic for Everyone | Laurent Le Bon
Laurent Le Bon, the new Director of the Pompidou Center-Metz (which was inaugurated in May 2010), responds to Callu on the level of achieved results. Le Bon has headed up an unprecedented experiment--one Picon would perhaps have approved of--that follows in the wake of what French President Georges Pompidou attempted and succeeded in imposing ...
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# 34-2 | Tocqueville and the Arts in Democracy | Françoise Melonio
The principal thesis of the second volume of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is that the dominant passion of modern societies is equality. One of its effects would be the “softening of customs,” but it would also engender cultural upheaval and an upending of established cultural objects. For, if it is really aristocratic ...
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# 33-2 | Policies of the Real | François Michaud
The notion of the real has always been open to debate, especially among artists who have never attributed to it the same form. More than once has it served to defend opposing world views, even competing societal models. To Each His Real is the title of the major research project being directed by Mathilde Arnoux ...
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# 33-1 | Policies of the Real | Mathilde Arnoux
The notion of the real has always been open to debate, especially among artists who have never attributed to it the same form. More than once has it served to defend opposing world views, even competing societal models. To Each His Real is the title of the major research project being directed by Mathilde Arnoux ...
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# 32-3 | Kleinian Economics | Sophie Cras
It is difficult to talk about Yves Klein free from the cult surrounding him. That, however, is what three observers who are attentive of this “salesman of the void”’s connections with economic issues have tried to do. Klein had received this epithet in 1960 from a Tribune de Lausanne journalist who failed to see ...
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# 32-2 | Kleinian Economics | Kaira Cabanas
It is difficult to talk about Yves Klein free from the cult surrounding him. That, however, is what three observers who are attentive of this “salesman of the void”’s connections with economic issues have tried to do. Klein had received this epithet in 1960 from a Tribune de Lausanne journalist who failed to see ...
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# 32-1 | Kleinian Economics | Denys Riout
It is difficult to talk about Yves Klein free from the cult surrounding him. That, however, is what three observers who are attentive of this “salesman of the void”’s connections with economic issues have tried to do. Klein had received this epithet in 1960 from a Tribune de Lausanne journalist who failed to see ...
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# 31-3 | New Soviet Fashions | Valérie Pozner
Our knowledge of Russia and the USSR is no longer in focus. That is the conclusion delivered here by three researchers who offer us a historiographical overview of painting, film, architecture, and urban planning. In their company, we exit a history centered around the decryption of ideological messages effectively imposed by the state apparatus. ...
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# 31-2 | New Soviet Fashions | Cécile Pichon-Bonin
Our knowledge of Russia and the USSR is no longer in focus. That is the conclusion delivered here by three researchers who offer us a historiographical overview of painting, film, architecture, and urban planning. In their company, we exit a history centered around the decryption of ideological messages effectively imposed by the state apparatus. ...