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Cabañas, Kaira M.

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Kaira M. Cabañas

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

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Kaira M. Cabañas

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21996

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All reasonable efforts have been made to identify and contact copyright holders for the works and photographs reproduced in these pages. The author apologizes for any inadvertent errors or omissions. Copyright holders not acknowledged here or in the image captions should contact the author to be acknowledged in future editions.

Courtesy Archives de la Critique d’Art, Rennes (figs. 13, 17, 19, 47); courtesy Corice Canton Arman (figs. 9, 10); courtesy Art Resource, NY (fig. 64); author’s photographs (fig. 97); courtesy Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University (figs. 29, 60); courtesy Bibliothèque Kandinsky Centre de Documentation et de Recherche du Mnam/CCI, Paris (figs. 41, 46); courtesy Gérard Berréby (fig. 31); courtesy Eric Fabre (figs. 52, 58); courtesy Fondazione Torino Musei (fig. 35); courtesy Gaumont-Pathé Archives, Paris (figs. 56, 76–78, 80, 84); courtesy Catherine Goldstein (fig. 83); courtesy Institut National de l’Audiovisuel–INA, Paris (fig. 18); courtesy Las Vegas News Bureau (fig. 89); courtesy Musée d’Histoire Contemporaine—Bibliothèque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine, Paris (figs. 59, 61); courtesy Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel (figs. 7, 85, 86, 87, 94, 95); courtesy NBC Universal Archives (figs. 88, 90–92); courtesy private collection, New York (figs. 14, 15, 16, 67, 68, 69, 71, 74); courtesy Roy Lichtenstein Foundation (figs. 1, 4, 5, 8, 36, 38, 39, 48, 65, 75); courtesy Swiss National Library, Bern (figs. 66, 70, 72, 73); courtesy Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images (fig. 54); courtesy Jacques Villeglé (figs. 3, 40, 43–45, 53); courtesy Yves Klein Archives (figs. 2, 11, 12, 21–28, 30, 32–34, 37, 79, 81, 82, 93, 99, 100–102)

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

Kaira M. Cabañas

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00279

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21986

On October 27, 1960, art critic Pierre Restany named a group of Paris-based artists the “Nouveaux Réalistes” (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, François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and Jacques Villeglé. Their work incorporated consumer objects and new media in response to the postwar period’s painterly modes and its burgeoning consumer and industrial society. However, they did not share a common avant-garde strategy.

The Myth of Nouveau Réalisme is a critical reassessment of this important neo-avant-garde movement. Kaira M. Cabañas offers an interdisciplinary account of their work and challenges the ideas of Restany, who mandated a “direct appropriation of the real.” Cabañas posits that, for the Nouveaux Réalistes, realism engaged performative practices to produce alternative social meanings.

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Kaira M. Cabañas

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date March 2013 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300181203

EISBN 9780300266337

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