Through a selection of texts (sometimes unpublished or translated into French for the first time) and interviews with
Christian Boltanski,
Michelangelo Pistoletto,
Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon,
Glenn Ligon, and Pipilotti Rist, the author proposes several clues to better understand and (re)discover the artists who have reinvested in the notion of modernity at the end of the 20th century, and whose research enlightens the beginning of the 21st.
Over five chapters which elaborate texts around the problematics of images and history, the body and language, the object and performance, the reader will encounter the now famous work of artists such as
Mike Kelley,
John Baldessari, and Bruce Nauman, as well as the elliptical paths of
Guy de Cointet or
Larry Bell, that the standards, dogma, and convention of the market have rendered invisible.
Marie de Brugerolle is an art historian, critic and curator (
Hors Limites, Centre Pompidou, Paris,
Bruce Nauman, Moma, New York,
and Gravity,
Allen Ruppersberg,
Magasin, Grenoble,
Guy de Cointet,
Mamco, Geneva and Tate Modern, London,
John Baldessari,
Larry Bell, Carré d'art, Nîmes,
Not to Play with Dead Things ,
Villa Arson, Nice,
Yvonne De Carlo, MUSAC, León, etc. ). Her texts have been published in numerous catalogues and magazines (
Art Press,
Semaines,
20/27,
Artforum...).
