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List of Contributors

Beyond the Clichés of “Decadence” and the Myths of “Triumph”: Rewriting France in the Stories of Postwar Western Art Catherine Dossin

1    Art and Communism in Postwar France: The Impossible Task of Defining a French Socialist Realism Cécile Pichon-Bonin and Lucia Piccioni

2    The Art of Community in Isidore Isou’s Traité de bave et d’éternité (1951) Marin Sarvé-Tarr

3    Their Paris, Our Paris: A Situationist dérive Emmanuel Guy

4    Pinot Gallizio’s Cavern: Re-Excavating Postwar Paris Sophie Cras

5    Agnès Varda’s du Côté de la Côte: Place as “Sociological Phenomenon” Rosemary O’Neill

6    Cybernetic Bordello: Nicolas Schöffer’s Aesthetic Hygiene Hervé Vanel

7    Nouveau Réalisme in its “Longue Durée”: From the Nineteenth-Century Chiffonnier to the Remembrance of the Second World War Déborah Laks

8    Decelerating Le Mouvement of Paris with Vision in Motion—Motion in Vision of Antwerp: Movement, Time, and Kinetic Art, 1955–1959 Noémi Joly

9    The Public Art of Jean Tinguely 1959–1991: Between Performance and Permanence Elisabeth Tiso

10  Jean-Jacques Lebel’s Revolution: The French Happening, Surrealism, and the Algerian War Laurel Fredrickson

11  Reimagining Communism after 1968: The Case of Grapus Sami Siegelbaum

12  Autogestion in French Art after 1968: A Case Study of the Sociological Art Collective Ruth Erickson

13  André Cadere’s Disorderly Conduct Lily Woodruff

14  Places of Memory and Locus: Ernest Pignon-Ernest Jacopo Galimberti

15  Questioning the Void: Sophie Calle’s Archival Subversions Rachel Boate

16  Claire Fontaine, Redemptions Liam Considine

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