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Path-breaking, provocative, and richly informative, Dossin's anthology presents a timely reassessment of French art within its complex local and global contexts. Built on incisive research, it challenges conventional art-historical narratives and nationalist cliches. The book will be an essential reference for future mappings of European art's relationships to history, geopolitics and aesthetics. * Jill Carrick, Associate Professor, Art History, Carleton University, Canada * This fine collection of essays corrects any lingering notion that artistic practices in France were on the decline in the post-war period or that American art history can remain the predominant model. Against a long-standing narrative that locates France's decadence as the pendant to the United States' ascendance, the international group of authors in this collection historicize and contextualize a diverse set of case studies that illuminate the specific French experience; in so doing, they make a compelling argument for writing different history of art, one that simultaneously re-examines the place of Frances in the visual arts since 1945 and questions the genealogies and historiographies that have sustained the authority of American postwar and contemporary art. Such an attempt to expand the canonical narrative has been a long time coming. * Noit Banai, Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Vienna, Austria * This invaluable collection confirms the undeniable richness and diversity of post-war French art. More importantly, it reveals the distinctive political and intellectual commitments of key artists and movements, and helps combat the prejudices of a modernist art history still too often narrated from the vantage point of the United States. * Alex J. Taylor, University of Pittsburgh, USA *

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Catherine Dossin is Associate Professor of Art History, Purdue University, USA.

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