Criticism versus History

Up until now we have been missing a comprehensive study of postwar French art criticism that has viewed its subject with sufficient hindsight to provide its author with a sense of detachment in relation to generational challenges. Awareness of the waning of Paris as the international capital of the arts gave rise to a flood of reactions, including from art critics. These latter would voice their views with a “determinedly historicistically-oriented” pen, demonstrating their eagerness to re-es..