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Description: The Myth of Nouveau Réalisme: Art and the Performative in Postwar France
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A 40° au-dessus de Dada (exhibition), 8, 8, 76
abstract art: establishing preeminence of, 71, 73–74
Restany and, 15
salon dedicated to, 33
television and, 152
Tinguely’s Méta-matics and, 140
Abstract Expressionism, 7, 166n12, 170n53
Actor-Network Theory, 186n56
actualités (newsreels), 127–28, 131–32, 134
Adamov, Arthur, 181n60
Adorno, Theodor, 15
advertising, 69–70, 100, 140, 181n64, 184n14
affiches lacérées (torn posters), 2, 3, 61, 64–95, 174n3, 177n68
Algeria, 58–60, 63–64, 76–82, 88–90, 93–95, 174n80, 177n66, 178n81, 178n88
Allain, Bernadette, 37
Alleg, Henri, La Question, 174n80, 176n37
Allendy, Colette, 34, 37, 45
Althusser, Louis, 87
Alvard, Julien, 166n9
American art, 71, 170n53
anti-aesthetic, 9
antiart, 9, 10, 24
Anti-Procès performances, 178n83
appropriation of the real, 7–8, 10, 11, 16, 18, 24, 27–28, 111, 170n53
Aragon, Louis, La querelle du réalisme, 169n15
Arman, 1–2, 1, 12, 166n4, 166n9
Accumulations, 2
Colères (Rages), 2
Madison Avenue, 5
Network (Performance), 5
Le plein, 54, 55
Arnaud, André, 50
Arp, Jean, 140, 149
art: autonomy of, 9, 58, 113–14, 121
conventions of, 35, 37, 43, 57, 123, 125
as institution, 9, 16, 32, 42–43, 121, 163
Artaud, Antonin, 187n9
Art Informel, 7, 8, 15, 24, 33, 41, 73–75, 166n9, 166n12
artists: role of, 16, 70, 174n3
television-show artists, 152–54, 186n56
Art News (magazine), 41, 41
Art of Assemblage (exhibition), 120–21
Arts (magazine), 77
Ashbery, John, 166n4
assemblage, 186n56
assisted décollage, 174n3
Atlas Group, 187n15
Austin, J. L., vii, 11, 13, 58, 86, 111, 157, 168n28, 168n31, 168n32, 179n21, 183n91
avant-garde: of 1950s, 17
Nouveau Réalisme and, 8–10
television program on, 137
Tinguely and, 146. See also neo-avant-garde repetition
Baj, Enrico, 178n83
Barthes, Roland, 2, 100, 101, 108–9, 121, 123, 168n30, 180n31, 180n39, 183n86
“The Death of the Author,” 121
“Objective Literature,” 108
Baticheffe, Jacqueline Blanche, 100
Baudrillard, Jean, 181n67
Beckett, Samuel, 181n60
Bellegarde, Claude, 15
Benjamin, Walter, 175n15
Benveniste, Emile, 168n28, 182n80
Bergier, Jacques, 24
Le matin des magiciens (with Louis Pauwels), 13, 19–20, 28
Berna, Serge, 175n7
Bernstein, Michèle, 44, 45, 47, 172n31, 172n38
Biennale de Paris. See Première Biennale Internationale des Jeunes Artistes
Blanc, Charles, 171n8
body: Klein’s Le vide and, 55–56
Pinot-Gallizio’s Caverne de l’antimatière and, 55
spiritualism and, 21–22
Bourdet, Claude, 85
Bourdieu, Pierre, 86, 168n31
Bourriaud, Nicolas, 188n16
Brassaï (Gyula Halász), 175n13
Brau, Jean-Louis, 175n7
Brecht, Bertolt, 17
Breer, Robert: Homage to Jean Tinguely’s “Homage to New York,” 140
Le mouvement (with Pontus Hultén), 137
Bremer, Claude, 120
Breton, André, 85, 85, 91
Nadja, 168n30
Brinkley, David, 143, 145–46, 145, 155, 185n30
Broadcasting (magazine), 148
Broodthaers, Marcel, 163
Brüning, Peter, 15
Bryen, Camille, Hépérile, 66
Buchloh, Benjamin, 10, 167n22
Buren, Daniel, 163
Bürger, Peter, Theory of the Avant-Garde, 9
Butler, Judith, 177n58
Cage, John, 185n36, 186n44
Callon, Michel, 186n56
Calvino, Italo, 182n71
Camus, Albert, 55, 56, 85
“Captive Words (Preface to a Situationist Dictionary),” 91, 92
Cárdenas, Agustín, 71
Carrick, Jill, 10, 167n22, 180n28
Cartesianism, 109–11, 114
César, 127, 166n1
Chevalier, Louis, 114
Chevreul, Michel Eugène, 35
Choay, Françoise, 55, 167n15
Christo, 12, 166n1
Cimaise (journal), 15, 167n15
citizenship, 84–86, 176n51, 177n57
Clert, Iris, 37, 43, 45, 46, 48, 58, 141
Cogniat, Raymond, 71, 73
collage, 70, 83
colonialism, 59–60
color: Klein and, 33–37, 171n16
theories of, 35, 171n8, 171n14
communication: complexity of, 97–99
conditions of, 11
Klein’s invisible works and, 42
planetary or total, 22–23, 25–27
SI and, 90–91
spiritualism and, 21
communication theory, 11, 22–23, 22, 25–26, 88, 98–99
Conceptual art, 61
constative language, 11, 111, 174n83, 179n21, 183n91. See also description
consumer culture, 2, 8, 181n64
conventions: of art presentation/viewing, 35, 37, 43, 57, 123, 125 (see also art: as institution)
of catalogues, 32
color as instance of, 36
Klein’s work and, 32, 35–37, 43, 57, 61
of language use, 123, 125, 157
of newspapers, 159–60
of political representation, 86, 88–89, 93
Cortázar, Julio, Rayuela, 182n72
Coty, René, 176n37
counterperformativity, 12, 125
counterrationalism, 20–21
Courtois, Michel, 175n13
Crary, Jonathan, 187n61
Crippa, Roberto, 178n83
criticality, 8–10, 157, 160, 163
Cruz-Diez, Carlos, 187n13
Cubism, 70
cybernetics, 22
Dada, 7–10, 23–24, 91, 166n4, 166n12, 175n15
Dahou, Mohamed, 44
David Brinkley’s Journal (television program), 143, 145–46, 148, 155, 185n36
Davis, Garry, 84–87, 84, 85, 176n51, 177n57
Debord, Guy, 10–11, 44–45, 46, 47, 52–53, 90, 114, 148–49, 157, 167n27, 172n31, 172n38, 174n77, 175n7, 177n57, 177n70, 178n74, 181n60
Hurlements en faveur de Sade (Howls for Sade), 44, 45, 172n27, 172n30
Mémoires (with Asger Jorn), 181n68
“Report on the Construction of Situations,” 52
Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen, 67
Déclaration sur le droit à l’insoumission dans la Guerre d’Algérie (Manifeste des 121), 63–64
décollage, 70, 127, 174n3, 175n16
De Gaulle, Charles, 59, 61, 74, 77, 87–88, 95, 178n88, 184n14
Delacroix, Eugène, 34, 36, 48, 167n21
Deleuze, Gilles, 186n56
Derrida, Jacques, 13, 118, 163, 168n31, 174n82, 174n83, 179n21
Descargues, Pierre, 166n4
Deschamps, Gérard, 166n1
Descharnes, Robert, 41, 128
description: in literary theory, 180n32
in the New Novel, 108–13, 116, 180n37, 180n39, 180n42, 181n61, 182n70
as performative, 114
performative language as challenge to, 11–12
Spoerri and, 104, 107–8, 111–13, 115, 121. See also constative language
détournement, 90, 91, 181n68
différance, 118
direct appropriation. See appropriation of the real
Dort, Bernard, 110
Dova, Gianii, 178n83
Dubuffet, Jean, 7, 24
Duchamp, Marcel, 3, 9, 16, 24, 37, 43, 57, 101, 140, 141, 146, 166n4, 167n13, 179n14
Anémic Cinéma, 186n45
Dufrêne, François, 1, 12, 71, 73, 74, 137, 153, 154, 166n4, 166n9, 175n7, 184n11, 184n16
La Brèche pour Brecht, 72
Duras, Marguerite, 17, 181n60
Dylaby (exhibition), 116, 119, 182n73
Ecole de Paris, 71, 73
écriture (writing), 121, 123
effet de réel, 17, 120, 121, 160, 179n20
Ellul, Jacques, 16, 18
Encyclopédie Planète, 27
En français dans le texte (television series), 28, 28, 137, 184n16
Erró (Ferro), 178n83
Les espaces imaginaires (exhibition), 15
Esprit (magazine), 110
l’esthétique rélationnel (relational aesthetics), 188n16
Estienne, Charles, 131, 132, 134, 166n9
ethics of discomfort, 94
event scores, 125
L’express (magazine), 109, 132
fantastic, the, 19–20
Fautrier, Jean, 7, 24
Fauvet, Jacques, La France déchirée, 73
Favory, Lucien, 175n19
Faye, Jean-Pierre, 182n71
La Fédération de France du FLN, 89–90
Feldman, Hannah, 76, 176n39
Felman, Shoshana, 168n28
Le Figaro (newspaper), 72
Filliou, Robert, 113, 116, 120, 154, 181n67
film, art and, 128, 131–32, 134
FLN. See Front de Libération National
Fluxus, 125, 163
Foldès, Pierre, 175n19
Fontana, Lucio, 152
Foucault, Michel, 94, 168n32
Fougeron, André, 169n15
France: and Algeria, 58–60, 63–64, 76–82, 88–90, 93–95, 174n80, 177n66, 178n81, 178n88
art and culture in, 70–75, 187n13
Fourth Republic, 77
and Indochina, 77
Third Republic, 67. See also state, the
France Actualités (newsreel), 183n1
La France déchirée (exhibition), 12, 75–83, 76, 87–88, 90–91, 93–95, 125
Frankfurt School, 93
Fraternité française (newspaper), 77
French Communist Party poster, 89
French Revolution, 67
Front de Libération National (FLN), 88–90, 93
Galerie Colette Allendy, 37, 44, 45, 67, 75
Galerie Iris Clert, 37, 45, 48, 51–52, 54, 55, 132, 137, 140, 146
Galerie J, 8, 25, 28, 75–76, 125
Galerie Kamer, 15
Galerie Lawrence, 29, 104, 116
Galerie René Drouin, 53, 53
Galerie Rive Droite, 128, 170n53
Galerie Schmela, 137, 152
Galerie Taptoë, 44–45
Galleria Apollinaire, 34, 44
Gassiot-Talabot, Gérald, 18
Gaumont, 128, 131–32, 137, 183n1, 184n13
“Images de la semaine,” 131, 132, 137, 184n19
Gaumont Actualités (newsreel), 127
La pêche aux éponges, 132
Gerstner, Karl, 118
Gervereau, Laurent, 88, 93
gestural painting, 7, 15–16
Gindertael, R. V., 149
Godard, Jean-Luc, 17, 18
Pierrot le fou, 17
Goldmann, Lucien, 18, 114, 167n27, 169n12, 181n60
Goldschmidt, Jeanine, 28
Götz, K. O., 152
Greenberg, Clement, 166n12
Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV), 187n13
Guattari, Félix, 186n56
Hains, Raymond, 1–2, 12, 61, 63–84, 87–95, 137, 166n4, 166n9, 184n16
Ach Alma Manétro (with Jacques Villeglé), 64
C’est ça le renouveau?, 77, 80
Cet homme est dangereux, 76, 77, 79
Le Codex hypnagogique, 65
Comité pour la paix en Algérie, 77, 81
De Gaulle compte sur vous, aidez-le, 88–89, 89
De Gaulle veut un bain de sang, il l’aura, 77, 178n81
Et quand vous dites Soviétique Patrie est notre plus juste histoire de lard (with Jacques Villeglé), 82, 83
La France déchirée, 12, 75–83, 87–88, 90–91, 93–95, 125
Hépérile éclaté (with Jacques Villeglé), 66, 66
Insoumission, 63, 63
O.A.S. Fusillez les plastiqueurs, 178n81
Paix en Algérie, 77, 81
La palissade des emplacements réservés, 72–74, 72
Pénélope (with Jacques Villeglé), 66
photos hypnagogiques, 65, 66
Résistance, 63, 63
Le 13 mai, 77
Haraway, Donna, 186n56
Hartung, Hans, 24
Heindel, Max, The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, 47
Henry, Pierre, 183n5, 186n44
Hollier, Denis, 168n30
Horkheimer, Max, 15
Hultén, Pontus, 120, 140, 146
Le mouvement (with Robert Breer), 137
Humeau, Edmond, 175n13
immateriality: of communication, 23, 25, 29
of Klein’s work, 57–58, 61. See also materiality
immaterial pictorial sensibility, 29, 37, 43, 56–58, 61. See also pictorial sensibility
improper performativity, 86–88, 90, 91, 93, 94–95, 177n58
indéfinissable (indefinable), 36, 48
indexicality: of affiches lacérées, 67, 75
Brinkley and, 146
Duchamp and, 101, 179n14
Klein and, 39, 41
Peirce on, 179n14
Spoerri and, 101, 104, 107, 114–15, 120
Indochina, 77
information theory, 22
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 97, 123
Institutional Critique, 9, 163. See also art: as institution
intentionality, 39, 42–43
International Klein Blue, 2, 34, 36, 48
International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus (IMIB), 44
interpellation, 87–88
Isou, Isidore, 67, 175n7
Traité de bave et d’eternité, 134, 135, 184n11
Jackson Pollock, 1912–1956 (exhibition), 71
Jameson, Fredric, 116, 182n71
Jean Tinguely, Méta-matics (exhibition), 140, 141
“Les Jeunes est les autres,” Journal Gaumont, 127, 129
Jorn, Asger, 44, 45, 46, 53, 172n31
Mémoires (with Guy Debord), 181n68
Untitled (with Yves Klein, Ralph Rumney, and Maurice Weyckaert), 45, 45
Joseph, Branden W., 152
Jouannet, Yvan, “L’avant-garde,” 28
Jouffroy, Alain, 99, 101, 166n4, 167n15, 179n11
Journal Eclair (newsreel), 131
Journal Gaumont (newsreel), 136
Kandinsky, Wassily, 36, 149
Kender, John, 160
Khayati, Mustapha, 177n72
Klein, Yves, 1–2, 6, 12, 31–61, 137, 166n4, 166n9, 167n21
Anthropométries de l’époque bleue, 132, 133
“L’art et le feu,” 132, 133
and color, 33–37, 171n16
and communication, 29
Déclaration constitutive du Nouveau Réalisme, 1
Le dépassement de la problématique de l’art, 50–51, 58
Dimanche (le journal d’un seul jour), 158, 159–60, 159
“discours révolutionnaire” of, 58–61, 174n77
Expression de l’univers de la couleur mine orange, 33
Feux de Bengale–Tableau de feu bleu d’une minute, 134
films produced by, 132, 134, 183n10
La guerre (de la ligne et de la couleur) ou (vers la proposition monochrome), 34
Haguenault Peintures, 171n3
and immateriality, 29, 57–58, 61
invisible work of, 36–37
Leap into the Void, 160, 161, 163
monochrome works of, 31–37, 172n30
“My Position in the Battle between Line and Color,” 36
performance in the work of, 32, 41–43, 56–57, 60–61, 157, 159–60, 163
Position de Malewitch par rapport à moi, 167n21
reception of, 50
Scènes de Judo, 133
and the Situationist International, 44–47, 172n31, 172n38
spiritual aspects of work of, 47
Symphonie monoton-silence, 132
on television, 184n12
Untitled (with Asger Jorn, Ralph Rumney, and Maurice Weyckaert), 45, 45
untitled blue monochrome (IKB 98), 6
Le vide, 12, 48–61, 49
Vitesse pure et stabilité monochrome (with Jean Tinguely), 146, 147, 186n45
Yves Klein: Monochrome and Feuer (exhibition), 160, 162
Yves Klein, propositions monochromes, 37, 38–40, 39, 41–43, 43, 131–32
Yves Peintures, 31–32, 31, 32, 125
Klüver, Billy, 140
Knights of the Order of the Archers of Saint Sebastian, 172n38
Köpcke Gallery, 120
Krauss, Rosalind, 101
lacerated posters. See affiches lacérées
Lacoste, M. Conil, 73
language: décollage and, 70
expansiveness of, 118
Fluxus and, 125
materiality of, 66–67
performative theory of, 11
and power, 12
SI and the liberation of, 90–91
social conventions and, 123, 125
Spoerri and, 123, 125, 181n67. See also constative language; performative language
Latin America, 173, 187n13
Latour, Bruno, 186n56
Law, John, 186n56
Lebel, Jean-Jacques, 178n83
Grand tableau antifasciste collectif (with other artists), 178n83
Lefebvre, Henri, 69–70, 167n27
Léger, Fernand, 169n8
Le Lionnais, François, 182n71
Lemaître, Maurice, 175n7, 184n11
Le Parc, Julio, 187n13
Les lettres françaises (newspaper), 82
Lettrism, 67, 134, 175n7
Lettrist International (LI), 44, 47, 52, 70, 175n7
Lie, Trygve, 85
Life (magazine), 143
literature: and realism, 17
and technological culture, 20–21
Loi du 29 juillet 1881 (law), 67, 69–70, 88, 93, 175n11
Loi du 29 juillet 1881; ou, Le lyrisme à la sauvette (exhibition), 67, 69–70, 175n13
London Psychogeographical Committee (LPC), 44
Lourjou, Bernard, De la nausée à la colère, 72–73
Lousiana Museum, Humlebaek, 140
Lukács, Georg, 167n27, 168n30, 178n74, 180n32
Lupasco, Stéphane, 128, 130
Mack, Heinz, 152, 154
Magazine des arts et des lettres (television show), 134
Magny, Olivier de, 110
Malet, Léo, 175n16
Malevich, Kazimir, 149, 167n21
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 183n95
Malraux, André, 7, 71, 73–74, 175n21, 176n37
Le musée imaginaire, 74–75, 176n30
Manzoni, Piero, 153
Marxism, 21, 168n30
mass media, 11, 20–22, 26. See also television
materiality: of communication, 154
Debord and, 47
Klein and, 35–37, 42, 56
of language, 66–67
of paint, 7
of pigment, 33, 35
of Tableaux-pièges, 2, 100. See also immateriality
Mathieu, Georges, 7, 37, 41, 41, 128, 130, 131, 153, 166n8, 171n24
McDonough, Tom, 82–83, 178n73
McLuhan, Marshall, 22, 88, 148–49
Mehring, Christine, 152, 153
Merlin, Lee, 143
Meyer, Franz, 146
Michelson, Annette, 72, 175n21
Miotte, Jean, 175n19
Miró, Joan, 137
Miss Atomic Bomb beauty contest, 143, 143
modernization, 7, 11, 13, 27, 47, 101
Le Monde (newspaper), 63, 73, 77
Mondrian, Piet, 169n8
Morin, Edgar, 27
Moulin, Raoul-Jean, 82, 94
Mounier, Emmanuel, 85
Mousseau, Jacques, 28
Movement in Art (exhibition), 140
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 120, 140, 187n14
music, 152, 183n5, 186n44
Namuth, Hans, 171n24
nationalism, 59–61
NBC (television network), 140, 143, 145, 146, 148, 152, 153, 155, 184n21
Neiman, Yehuda, 175n19
neo-avant-garde, 146
neo-avant-garde repetition, 7, 9, 10, 167n15
Neo-Dada, 28, 29
networks, 154, 186n56
The New American Painting (exhibition), 71
New Novel. See Nouveau Roman
New Realists (exhibition), 146, 170n53
newsreels. See actualités
New York art. See American art
Noël, Georges, 71, 74, 175n19
nominalism, 43, 57
Nouveau Nouveau Roman, 182n71
Nouveau Réalisme: and the avant-garde, 8–10
characteristics of work of, 1–2, 7–10
criticality of, 157, 160, 163
dissolution of, 2
exhibitions of, 7, 8, 166n9
festivals publicizing, 28–29
founding of, 1–2, 1, 7–9
influence of, 163, 188n16
members of, 1, 1, 166n1, 166n4
and the New Novel, 111
newsreel on, 127–28
and performative realism, 11–13, 157, 159–60, 163
reception of, 9–10, 11, 167n15
Restany and, 23–29
Situationist International and, 44, 172n29
and sound, 186n44
and television, 125, 137, 153, 184n16
use of term, 169n8, 169n15
Le nouveau réalisme à Paris et à New York (exhibition), 170n53
Nouveau Roman (New Novel), 17, 27, 108–15, 169n12, 180n37, 180n42, 180n43, 180n48, 181n61, 182n70
Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), 17, 27
OAS. See Organisation de l’Armée Secrète
Obelisk, Place de la Concorde, 48, 50
Oceanside Rosicrucian Society, 47
Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF), 134, 184n14
Organisation de l’Armée Secrète (OAS), 89, 93, 177n66, 178n81
“Oui à la France” (poster), 87, 87
OuLiPo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), 182n71, 182n72
Paik, Nam June, 152
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 188n16
papiers collées, 83. See also collage
Parinaud, André, 25
Paris-J (pamphlet), 28, 29
Paris Match (magazine), 28, 29
Paris Review (journal), 116
Passeron, Odile, 25
Pathé, 183n1, 184n13
Pathé-Journal (newsreel), 127, 128, 130, 183n1
Pauwels, Louis, 19–25, 27–28
Le matin des magiciens (with Jacques Bergier), 13, 19–20, 28
Peirce, C. S., 107, 179n14
Pennebaker, D. A., Breaking It Up at the Museum, 140
Perec, George: Les choses: Une histoire des années soixante, 182n74
Life: A User’s Manual, 182n71
performative contradictions, 174n85
performative language: in art vs. life, 157
constative language in relation to, 174n83, 179n21, 183n91
Hains and, 87
nature of, 60–61
nonreciprocity of, 88
performative realism: Klein’s, 43, 47, 57, 61, 159–60, 163
Nouveau Réalisme and, 11–13, 157, 159–60, 163
Spoerri’s, 99, 120, 123
use of term, 168n30
performative theory, 11, 168n28
performativity: Barthes on writing as, 121, 123
description and, 114
disguising of, 12
improper, 86–88, 90, 91, 93, 94–95, 177n58
in Klein’s work, 32, 41–43, 56–57, 60–61
Malraux and, 73
models of, 13, 168n31
of political posters, 87–88, 93–94
and power, 12, 157, 159
and reference, 61
of visual representations, 118
photos hypnagogiques, 65, 66
Picasso, Pablo, 83
pictorial sensibility, 35, 41, 42, 47, 51, 134. See also immaterial
pictorial sensibility Peine, Otto, 152, 154
peinture directe, 166n8
Pierre, José, Les fausses cartes transparentes de “Planète,” 25–26, 26
Pinot-Gallizio, Giuseppe, Caverne de l’antimatière (exhibition), 53, 53, 55, 91
Place de la Concorde, 48, 50
planetary culture, 21–23, 25–26, 170n38
Planète (magazine), 20–21, 20, 23–28
political posters, 67, 75–83, 87–91, 87, 89, 93–95, 95
politics. See sociopolitical issues and effects
Pollock, Jackson, 153, 171n24
Pomodoro, Gio and Arnaldo, 183n5
Pop art, 28, 163, 170n53
positivism, 19–20
poststructuralism, 11
Poujade, Pierre, 77, 89
power: dissimulation of, 12
Klein’s Le vide and, 55–58
performativity and, 12, 157, 159
Première Biennale Internationale des Jeunes Artistes, 70–75, 72, 175n21
Première Exposition de Psychogéographie, 44–45, 47, 172n31
press, freedom of, 67, 69
psychogeography, 47, 52, 181n68
puns, 83
Queneau, Raymond, 182n71
Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF), 134, 184n13
Ragon, Michel, 77, 82
rationalism, 18
Rauschenberg, Robert, 152, 182n73
Broadcast, 152
Raysse, Martial, 1–2, 54, 166n4, 182n73
reader, as producer, 182n71
readymades: Klein and, 171n16
Nouveau Réalisme and, 8, 9, 10
Spoerri and, 2, 101
Tinguely and, 146
realism: affiches lacérées and, 94–95
Goldmann and, 114
meanings of, 16, 169n8
of Nouveau Réalisme, 11–13
of Nouvelle Vague, 17
in postwar France, 16–17
and reference, 13, 16, 18, 104, 121, 123, 168n30
and reification, 11, 181n60
Restany’s view of, 13, 16, 17–18, 24, 27, 29, 93, 169n15
Robbe-Grillet and, 113–14
Spoerri and, 104, 107–8, 120, 121, 179n20. See also appropriation of the real; performative realism
Réalisme Fantastique, 13, 18–29, 170n38
reality effect. See effet de réel
Recalcati, Antonio, 178n83
referential signification: artists’ rejection of, 44, 66, 104, 114, 120, 123
challenges to theory of, 11, 13, 16, 121, 168n30
Klein and, 32, 160
Nouveau Réalisme and, 18
performativity and, 61
photos hypnagogiques and, 66
Spoerri and, 104
reification, 11, 12, 167n27, 181n60
representations, performative character of, 118
Republican Guards, 48, 50, 52, 55–58
Resnais, Alain, 17
Last Year at Marienbad, 169n13
Restany, Pierre: A 40° au-dessus de Dada, 2, 8, 23
and Algeria, 178n81
and Art Informel, 15
career of, 15
criticisms of, 25–26, 70
“Le Geste et le rythme,” 15
on Hains’s work, 76–77
and Klein, 43, 44, 50, 131
and musée vivant, 188n16
“Notre actuelle avant-garde,” 23–24, 23
and Nouveau Réalisme, 1–2, 1, 7–9, 23–29, 166n4, 166n9, 166n12, 184n16
Les nouveaux réalistes, 7
and realism, 13, 16, 17–18, 24, 27, 29, 93, 169n15
and Réalisme Fantastique, 170n38
and Spoerri, 120, 179n22
and technology, 28
on television, 137
Ricardou, Jean, 182n71
Rivière, Claude, “Du monde pictural à la palisade,” 72, 73, 74
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 17, 108–16, 121, 169n12, 180n31, 180n39, 180n42, 181n60, 182n70, 182n71
“A Future for the Novel,” 109
Les gommes, 108
La jalousie, 106, 109–12, 114–16, 120, 180n43, 181n57, 181n61
“Nature, Humanism, Tragedy,” 109, 181n61
“On Several Obsolete Notions,” 180n43
Rosenthal, Nan, 171n15
Rosicrucians, 47, 50
Ross, Kristin, 169n10
Rotella, Mimmo, 128, 129, 166n1
Roubaud, Jacques, 182n71
Rubin, Larry, 104, 179n22
Rumney, Ralph, 44, 45
Untitled (with Asger Jorn, Yves Klein, and Maurice Weyckaert), 45, 45
Saint Phalle, Niki de, 12, 128, 129, 137, 143, 166n1, 182n73, 184n16
Salle des Informels, 71–74, 72, 176n23
Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, 7, 33
Sans, Jérôme, 188n16
Sarraute, Nathalie, 114, 181n60
Sarrazac, Robert, 85–87, 85, 177n57
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 17, 176n37
Saturday Evening Post (magazine), 143
Schaeffer, Pierre, 186n44
Schmela, Alfred, 184n20
Schneider, Pierre, 9
Schuman, Robert, 85
Schwartz, Arturo, 120
Schwitters, Kurt, 70
Searle, John R., 168n31, 174n83
Second Festival of Avant-Garde Art (Paris, 1960), 159
Seitz, William, 120–21
723 ustensiles de cuisine (exhibition), 124, 125
Shannon, Claude E., 22–23, 26, 154
Mathematical Theory of Communication, 22
Show (magazine), 146
Shunk, Harry, 160
SI. See Situationist International
Sidney Janis Gallery, 146, 170n53
sight. See vision and sight
Signac, Paul, 36
sign systems, 125
Simondo, Piero, 45
Singer, Gérard, 71
Situationist International (SI), 9–11, 44–45, 47, 52–53, 55, 90–91, 163, 172n29, 181n60, 181n68
Socialist Realism, 7, 17, 169n15
sociopolitical issues and effects: of Art Informel, 7
Hains and Villeglé’s affiches lacérées and, 63–64, 75–83, 87–95
Klein and, 59–61
of Nouveau Réalisme, 18, 27
of psychogeography, 47
of Réalisme Fantastique, 21, 25–26
of Situationist International, 52–53
Socrates, 59
Sollers, Philippe, 182n71
Something Else Press, 116
Soto, Jesús Rafael, 187n13
sound, 149, 152, 186n44
space: Cartesian, 109–11, 114
Klein and, 47, 50–53, 55–58
psychogeographic approach to, 47, 181n68
purification of, 174n77
Robbe-Grillet and, 109–10, 114
Spoerri and, 114–15
spectacle, 55, 148, 152, 157, 168n27
spiritualism, 21–22
Spoerri, Daniel, 1–2, 1, 3, 29, 95, 97–125, 97, 103, 153, 154, 182n72, 182n73
An Anecdoted Topography of Chance (Re-Anecdoted Version), 116, 117, 118, 120, 122, 182n75
Anekdoten zu einer Topographie des Zufalls, 120, 182n75
La douche, 179n20
Eat Art, 157, 163, 183n94, 187n15
Eaten by Marcel Duchamp, 3
Kichka’s Breakfast, 100, 102
and the New Novel, 108–15
Pièges à mot, 181n67
Pourquoi pas un Tàpies?, 98, 99
723 ustensiles de cuisine (exhibition), 183n95
Tableaux-pièges, 2, 3, 99–104, 102, 103, 118, 179n11
Texts Read from a Mobile Axis, 97–98
Topographie anécdotée du hasard, 12, 104, 105, 106–8, 111–16, 112, 118, 120–21, 123, 125, 179n22, 181n64, 181n68, 182n75
Spur, 173n58
state, the: and art, 71, 73
citizenship and, 84–86, 176n51
conventions constituting, 57–58
and freedom of the press, 67, 69
Klein’s Le vide and, 57–58
power of, 58. See also France
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 116
structuralism, 11, 22
Sturrock, John, 181n61
surrealism, 2, 19, 104
Tableaux-pièges (trap or snare pictures), 2, 3, 99–104, 102, 103, 118, 179n11
Tapié, Michel, 7, 15, 166n9, 166n12
“Mathieu Paints a Picture,” 41
Tàpies, Antoni, 99
technology: concept of, 16
counterrationalism and, 20–21
Nouveau Réalisme and, 2, 7, 8, 18, 24–25, 28
Réalisme Fantastique and, 27
Restany and, 28
supplemental/prosthetic function of, 22, 25
Télé 7 jours (magazine), 28
television: art and culture on, 134
artists and, 152–53, 185n36
color, 146, 148
critical assessments of, 148–49
in Europe, 184n14
flow of, 145–46, 149
Nouveau Réalisme and, 125, 137, 153, 184n16
Tinguely and, 137–55, 184n20
unity in, 146, 148, 149, 152, 155
television-show artists, 152–54, 186n56
Tel Quel (journal), 182n71
Thibaudeau, Jean, 182n71
Thwaites, John Anthony, 173n58
Tinguely, Jean, 1–2, 1, 4, 58, 99, 120, 125, 127–55, 141, 166n9, 182n73, 184n16
Concert pour sept peintures, 136, 137, 152
Le Frigo, 146
Homage to New York, 2, 4, 140, 145, 146, 184n21
Méta-Malevich, 150
Méta-matic 17, 73, 185n24
Méta-matics, 2, 140, 185n24
Méta-mécaniques, 149, 152, 154
Relief méta-mécanique sonore, 149, 152
Study for an End of the World, No. 1, 138–39, 140, 145, 146
Study for an End of the World, No. 2, 12, 140, 142, 143–55, 144, 147, 185n30
Vitesse pure et stabilité monochrome (with Yves Klein), 146, 147, 186n45
Tiravanija, Rirkrit, 187n15
topography, 111–13
Topor, Roland, 116
torn posters. See affiches lacérées
transcendence, 13, 16, 18, 25, 47
Tribunal des Conflits, 93
Tzara, Tristan, 140
Uecker, Günther, 152, 154
Uecker, Rotraut, 1
Ultvedt, Per Olof, 182n73
United Nations, 85–86, 177n57, 178n88
United Press International, 143
universalism, 74, 95
Valéry, Paul, 180n32
Varda, Agnès, 17
verisimilitude, 120, 179n20
video artists, 153–54
Villeglé, Jacques, 1–2, 1, 3, 12, 61, 63–75, 90, 91, 94, 127, 166n4, 166n9, 174n3
Ach Alma Manétro (with Raymond Hains), 64
Boulevard Raspail, 3
“Des réalités collectives,” 70
Et quand vous dites Soviétique Patrie est notre plus juste histoire de lard (with Raymond Hains), 82, 83
Hépérile éclaté (with Raymond Hains), 66, 66
L’humour jaune–Boulevard Pasteur, 67, 68
Pénélope (with Raymond Hains), 66
violence: in affiches lacérées, 77
of the French state, 60
Klein and, 51, 56, 60
of OAS, 93
vision and sight, 109–11
Vitesse pure et stabilité monochrome (exhibition), 146
Vostell, Wolf, 175n16
Weber, Samuel, 149, 154
Weil, Albert, 132
Wescher, Herta, review by, 151, 186n42
Weyckaert, Maurice, Untitled (with Asger Jorn, Yves Klein, and Ralph Rumney), 45, 45
Williams, Emmett, 116, 118, 125
Williams, Raymond, 146
Winkler, Gerd, 152–54, 186n56
0x0=Kunst, 153
Wolman, Gil J., 175n7, 184n11
Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schultze), 24, 175n13
world citizenship, 84–87, 177n57
World Government of World Citizens, 177n57
Yves Klein: Monochrome and Feuer (exhibition), 160, 162
Yves Klein: Proposte Monochrome, Epocha Blu (exhibition), 34–35, 34
Yves Peintures (exhibition), 33, 33
Zero (journal), 160
Zero Fest, 152–53
Zero Group, 152–53, 160
Ztohoven, 187n15