From December to March, Club de la Toula (Crans-Montana), in collaboration with Fondation Opale, is organising a series of four lectures on the evolution of contemporary art, from 1945 to the present day.
The lectures are given by Bernard Blistène, heritage curator, art historian and professor at the École du Louvre for 25 years, and Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou from 2013 to 2021.
CHF 10.- per lecture | CHF 30.- for the entire cycle
Free for members of Club de la Toula, Friends of Fondation Opale and with Abobo
Registration: info@fondationopale.ch
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1945-1960 : EUROPE ET ÉTATS-UNIS, OU « COMMENT NEW YORK A VOLÉ L’IDÉE D’ART MODERNE »
L’après-guerre, dans un climat de guerre froide, voit se déplacer les grands enjeux de la création vivante de Paris à New-York. Quelles sont les stratégies et les conséquences politiques et sociales, économiques et esthétiques d’un pareil bouleversement artistique ?
1945-1960: EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES, OR „HOW NEW YORK STOLE THE IDEA OF MODERN ART“
The post-war period, in a climate of Cold War, saw the major stakes of living creation shift from Paris to New York. What were the political and social, economic and aesthetic strategies and consequences of such an artistic upheaval?