L'autre art contemporain. Vrais artistes et fausses valeurs. Copte resolutely modern for his time

resolutely modern for his time

" wrote Jean Genet in The Thief's Journal

Degas made the Opera the central point of his work

the Restless Heirs THE ROMAN WORLD The Age of Legends (753-990 BC) The Republic of Conquests (390-264 BC) The First Two Punic Wars (264-202 BC) Mare Nostrum (202-146 BC) The Troubled Republic (146-31 BC) The Julio-Claudian Principate (31 BC to 68 AD) The New Men (69-138 AD)

the illuminated bestiaries

L'autre art contemporain. Vrais artistes et fausses valeurs. Copte resolutely modern for his timeWritten by a passionate non specialist, this lively and brilliant little book is aimed at everyone, and aims to provide a manual for resisting the discourse on contemporary art. The latter bases its hold on a mythified vision of art history: the 20th century was above all the century of avant gardes, each having gone further than the previous one in questioning notions such as figuration, beauty, and even the work. Yet not only did these ancient