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The Ecole de Paris, a story without history ? : the Art in Paris from 1945 to 1980

Abstract

The Nouvelle École de Paris is a “geometrical object” with multiple facets that have evolved throughout the History of art. More than a national school, the Nouvelle École de Paris arose from cumulative discourses that have been trying to define it from 1945 to 1980. The École de Paris is a permanent morphing zone, changing upon two main components. The first one includes the interpretations and projections stemming from various actors constituting the artistic community (i.e. critics, gallery owners, historians, artists, etc.) and the second one involves independent contributors (i.e. political and economic protagonists). Each one has a different reading. This thesis contains two parts, both exploring the multiple conflicting interpretations to understand the resulting artistic heritage of the École de Paris. Thus, the first part of the thesis named “The contemporary readings from 1945 to 1955” investigates the conditions and contexts allowing the rise of École de Paris and analyzes the multiple acceptations it faces through contemporary readings from the end of the Second World War in 1945, after the Liberation, to the beginning of the Cold War in 1955. The second part, named “L’ École de Paris facing its history, from 1955 to 1980” is focused on the way of rewriting the History of art. The Nouvelle École de Paris reaches enough stability to revive the modernity in the middle of the 50’s, allowing reinforcing the international position of France on the artistic scene. Nevertheless, the historiographical model based on the French historical avant-garde that has been so far imposed by the École de Paris will be strongly contested at both national and international levels. Becoming too embarrassing in such an internationalized artistic world, the École de Paris is again subjected to further reinterpretations at the end of the 60’s. Stricken by the artistic avant-garde crisis of the 70’s, the History of art is constrained to reappraise the terms defining its Modernist past and those of the artistic French national tradition. The new issues to determine the place and the role of the École de Paris within the rebuilding program of French cultural policies and through the historiography writing come up from1960 to 1980. Although officially condemned, the resonance of some aspects of the École de Paris within the neo-avant-garde arising between 1970 and 1980, allows rethinking and surpassing the blockages formerly engendered by all paradoxical definitions of the École de Paris.

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