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# 34-2 | Tocqueville and the Arts in Democracy | Françoise Melonio

Passion for Equality, the Economies of Art Democracy 3
Alexis de Tocqueville par Théodore Chassériau, huile sur toile, 1850.

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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# 34-1 | Tocqueville and the Arts in Democracy | Lucien Jaume

Passion for Equality Democracy 4
Alexis de Tocqueville par Théodore Chassériau, huile sur toile, 1850.

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

Passion for Equality, the Economies of Art Cold War 3

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

Passion for Equality, the Economies of Art Cold War 3

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

the Economies of Art Economy, Yves Klein 3

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

the Economies of Art Economy, Yves Klein 3

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

the Economies of Art Economy, Yves Klein 5

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

Passion for Equality, the Economies of Art cinéma, Economy 3

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

Passion for Equality, the Economies of Art Art, USSR 3

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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# 31-1 | New Soviet Fashions | Elisabeth Essaïan

Passion for Equality, the Economies of Art architecture 4

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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