Before the Catastrophe: Pop in France in 1963 - Selected Excerpts

Excerpts from the archive of Pierre Restany and Otto Hahn In the foreword to the collection of his articles published in 1992, Otto Hahn explained that, in his early days as an art critic which coincided with the appearance of Pop art, many of his colleagues, who were “retarded in every way”, took him for “an agent of American cultural imperialism”. (p.6-7). There followed the names of Jean Bouret, who wrote for Lettres françaises, José Pierre of Combat, and Edouard Jaeger of Phases. A little..