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Disordering the Establishment
Participatory Art and Institutional Critique in France, 1958–1981
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Lily Woodruff
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
Lily Woodruff examines the development of artistic strategies of political resistance in France in the decades following World War II, showing how artists countered establishment ideology, challenged traditional art institutions, appealed to direct political engagement, and grappled with French intellectuals’ modeling of society.
Author / Editor information
Lily Woodruff is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Michigan State University.
Reviews
“Lily Woodruff's examination of conceptual painting in France is at once timely and long overdue. She offers a satisfying total narrative of the artworks situated in relation to the changing dynamics of both the state and the market as they came to determine culture without losing focus of the specificity of the aesthetic dimension of these interventions. She situates artwork as a vehicle for an intellectual and sensual proposition charged with capacity. I learned a tremendous amount from this book.”
-- Jaleh Mansoor, author of Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia
“This extraordinarily lucid book is required reading for anyone wondering how the 1960s—and even ‘democracy’ itself—still matters. As Lily Woodruff demonstrates, the top-down instrumentalization of participation was countered in that decade by an artistic landscape ranging from kinetic painting and wearable objects to handheld props and logos. In beautifully readable prose, she replaces French artistic practice in a geopolitical terrain that negotiates both Soviet and Maoist histories, making those practices once again urgently contemporary.”
-- Rachel Haidu, author of The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers, 1964–1976
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
June 12, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9781478090298
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Main content:
336
eBook ISBN:
9781478090298
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Professional and scholarly;
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BY-NC-SA 4.0
