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Pierre Restany

French art critic
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  • Judith Leyster: Self-Portrait
    Western painting
    / Art and consumerism: French and Italian art in the 1950s

    …manifesto written by the critic Pierre Restany that asserted that since easel painting was dead, a new embrace of reality was called for. In many ways Restany’s manifesto represented a long-overdue French response to the implications of the Duchampian ready-made, and Arman produced a number of works commenting wryly on…

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    …manifesto written by the critic Pierre Restany that asserted that since easel painting was dead, a new embrace of reality was called for. In many ways Restany’s manifesto represented a long-overdue French response to the implications of the Duchampian ready-made, and Arman produced a number of works commenting wryly on…

    Read More