Since January 20, the book by the young normalien and philosopher Benjamin Olivennes,
L'Autre Contemporary Art, True Artists and False Values
(Grasset), has brought up to date the debate on contemporary art, opened before him with an incomparable erudition by Jean Clair.
The title shows the shooting angle of this pamphlet which quickly became as debated as
Bouquet of Tulips
of his enemy, the American artist Jeff Koons.
It wants to be
"a manual of resistance to the discourse on contemporary art"
and dissects
"its mythologized vision of the history of art"
where progress would go only from avant-garde to avant-garde.
The debate is open.
Around the (virtual) table, Chantal Colleu-Dumond, associate of classical letters, former diplomat of culture in Essen, Bucharest, Rome and Berlin, director of the Chaumont-sur-Loire estate since 2007 where she mixes art and nature.
And Érik Desmazières, engraver, academician and brand new director of the Marmottan Museum in Paris.
This
"son of a diplomat, student at Sciences
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