Turning Back Time: the Living Contemporaneity of Avant-gardes
2017; OpenEdition Journals; Issue: 49 Linguagem: Inglês
10.4000/critiquedart.27206
ISSN2265-9404
Autores Tópico(s)French Historical and Cultural Studies
ResumoAlthough anniversaries are often reduced to occasions for canonisation, which can have a somewhat dampening effect on the events they celebrate, this is not the case for two exhibitions, The Revolution Is Dead: Long Live the Revolution! and A Different Way to Move: minimalismes, New York, 1960-1980, which are respectively being held in Bern for the centenary of the Revolution of 1917 1 and at the Carré d'art in Nîmes for the 40th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou.They both share the same ambition: to offer new perspectives on two memorable moments of the 20th century, in order to write history from the viewpoint of the present, taking advantage of the new prospects offered by historical depth of field, shedding new light, developing a new focus.In so doing, they confirm that art history is also shaped by exhibitions, which contribute to its rereading through their curatorial choices.By modifying their focal point, the different analyses and their perspectives such as they are developed in these catalogues try and map out links and connections that were hidden or minimised by art history. 2 Marcella Lista, the curator of A Different Way to Move, introduces an alternative history of Minimal art, by exhibiting the role of choreographic experimentations, especially those of the Judson Dance Theater, that have often been overlooked by the historiography of Minimal art, often restricted to visual arts.The book examines, beyond the collaborations
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