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L’art des années 1960. Chroniques d’une scène parisienne

Anne Tronche

It is said from the beginning. This book is a subjective approach of art in the 60s in one of the major scenes of the time, Paris. We see Carl Andre, with his thick beard at the home of young Yvon Lambert, as well as the mysterious André Cadere with his colored sticks; Jean Dubuffet or the meteorite Bernard Réquichot, who committed suicide at the beginning of the decade, in 1961. These are not biographies or critical analysis in the form of “traditional” history of art, but rather very personal summaries in which the circumstances, the friendships and archives of the author – a critic and an exhibition curator-, play a central role. Consequently we have a drink at La Palette with Topor and Pol Bury, we relive the famous Journée dans la rue of the GRAV, on 19 April 1966 or the infamous happening Dechirex by Jean-Jacques Lebel, in May 1965, with a nude woman arriving on a motorcycle and female croquet players hitting the crowd with their rackets. The power to bring those moments back to life also lies in the images of the photographers of the time, and first of all André Morain, who is still active today. We should not read this book full of life and fury like an academic pensum, but rather as palpitating memoires…


L’art des années 1960. Chroniques d’une scène parisienne, by Anne Tronche, Hazan, 2012, 512 p., €49

L’art des années 1960. Chroniques d’une scène parisienne - Anne Tronche


Review published in the newsletter #261 - from 31 May 2012 to 6 June 2012

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