Renaud Camus, Le Discours de Flaran, Paris, P.O.L, 1997 Abbaye de Flaran Defining contemporary art, or more precisely trying to define the notion of contemporaneity in art, seems all the less like an easy task because it must guard against…
Benjamin Olivennes, L'Autre Art contemporain, Paris, Grasset, 2021 Benjamin Olivennes gives us here an analysis and a documented panorama of what he himself calls "another twentieth century, another history of art". In this joyfully polemical text, Benjamin Olivennes castigates the…
Egon Schiele, Mouvement organique de chaise et cruche, 1912 Much has been said about this text published more than forty years ago, in 1983. If this Critique of Modernity still finds its place today, it is because it puts at…
These Ecrits sur l'art gather the various texts of Mark Rothko from 1934 to 1969 : numerous letters to his friends painters, manifestos, interviews, educational articles, various notes, etc.Of this composite ensemble, one will remember in particular the letter of…