French-American Connections, for a Re-activated Controversy

Three recent publications shed new light on the links, transmissions and infiltrations of tendencies, themes and concepts which constructed modernity, and which still inform it, especially in the United States. They deal with the posterity of La Controverse : Learning from Las Vegas and its retroactiveness, the “double effect” of Dada (Double-Barrelled Gun), and the shift of “points of coordination” away from a certain artistic grammar due to the contribution of what was long regarded as a su..