TY - BOOK ID - 127247744 TI - The narrative figuration : Fondation Gandur pour l'art AU - Ameline, Jean-Paul AU - Schubert, Yan AU - Fondation Gandur pour l'art PY - 2017 SN - 9788874397761 8874397763 PB - Milan: 5 continents, DB - UniCat KW - Artiste KW - Art et politique KW - Art figuratif KW - Détournement d'image KW - Peinture KW - Peinture figurative KW - Monory, Jacques KW - Adami, Valerio KW - Aillaud, Gilles KW - Arroyo, Eduardo KW - Bertholo, René KW - Bertini, Gianni KW - Cronica, Equipo KW - Cueco, Henri KW - Erro KW - Klasen, Peter KW - Rancillac, Bernard KW - Recalcati, Antonio UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:127247744 AB - A new kind of figurative art appeared during the 1960s in Europe and the United States. While in New York pop art offered a fresh perspective on an America in the throes of frenzied change, in Paris French painters and others from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany and Iceland also began exploiting images that had their origins in advertising, cinema and the popular press. Grouped under the umbrella term Narrative Figuration, they soon became the uncompromising critics of what was dubbed the consumer society. They were for the most part politically committed artists and many of them were actively involved in the political agitation that led up to the events of May 1968 in France. Once standard bearers, the Narrative Figuration artists have now been rediscovered by museums, which, like the Centre Pompidou, are dedicating increasing numbers of exhibitions to their work. Thanks to the acquisition of major works, the collection of the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art in Geneva now provides what is without doubt one of the most exhaustive selections of works by Adami, Aillaud, Arroyo, Erró, Fromanger, Jacquet, Klasen, Monory, Rancillac, Schlosser, Stämpfli, Télémaque and Voss, to name a few. ER -