THE CHOICE OF PAINTING - ANOTHER HISTORY OF ABSTRACTION, IN FRANCE, 1962-1989

How to continue painting, when easel painting is declared dead and the fashion is for Pop Art, non-art, conceptual art and minimalism? This is the question posed by this book, which looks back at three decades of abstract painting in France from the early 1960s to the 1970s. 1980. This panorama brings together artists whose pictorial approach was based on another conception of gesture, of the role of color and of the notion of the painting. Their works bear witness to the profound renewal of abstract practices of 1960s, from the project of deconstruction of the elements of painting initiated around May 1968 and the return of the painting begun at the turn of the 1980s.