The “Derestanyization” Temptation

Pierre Restany died in 2003, fifty years after he embarked on his career as an art critic, and fifty years after his first writings on Lyrical Abstraction. He left behind a considerable number of documents, publications, theoretical writings, manifestoes, and letters, now in the safekeeping of the Archives de la critique d’art. Since 2003, studies of this collection have encouraged new approaches to and readings of Restany’s critical activity, as much beyond France’s borders as within them, w..