Letter of Seminar
In her last book, De la visibilité. Excellence et singularité en régime médiatique, Nathalie Heinach studied “visibility capital,” which grants a form of superiority to those who possess it. This phenomenon, which was constantly growing in scope throughout the twentieth century, offered her the opportunity to reexamine the notion of the “total social fact,” ...
We know Antje Kramer because of her thesis on Les Nouveaux Réalistes en Allemagne (1957-1963) (The New Realists in Germany, 1957-1963), forthcoming from Presses du Réel. Here, she studies the figure of the artist as teacher in the 1960s and 1970s through the writings and actions of Yves Klein, George Maciunas, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Wolf ...
Brett Littman a travaillé dans le courant alternatif à New York downtown et retrace l’historique des formes d’art et d’expositions non-institutionnelles, des années 1960 à aujourd’hui. Il nous aide à mesurer la force d’actions qui n’ont pu prospérer que sur fond de contestation générale du capitalisme et de la politique engagée au Vietnam en ...
A look at the major figure of Allan Kaprow takes us back to that moment during the 1950s and 1960s when the discourse of modern formalism began to break up and to leave some room for less established positions. With an ever increasing chance of being understood, the time had finally come to lay ...
