RESTANY Pierre.

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RESTANY Pierre.
EVASIONS. Poems. Paris, Éditions du Miroir, 1951. In-12, paperback. Original edition. Uncut. Rare. - RESTANY Pierre. BELLEGARDE. Paris, Éditions H. Kamer, 1957. In-8, stapled. Original edition dedicated to the painter Claude Bellegarde. Annotated copy by Restany. - RESTANY Pierre. IMAGINARY SPACES. Paris, H. Kamer, 1957. Grand in-8, stapled. Original edition of this booklet from which Restany became an art critic. - [RESTANY Pierre]. WHITE BOOK. Milan, Éditions Apollinaire, 1969. In-8, paperback, cover and spines mute. Original edition with a completely mute cover, very complete with the Prayer of Insertion and the erratum "This white book is above all a white object it is not presented as a finished book it has neither the ambition nor the pretension". VERY RARE. Attached is a letter signed Hervé addressed to Pierre Restany: "this spirit of synthesis and the lyricism that I find in most of your texts definitely distinguishes you from the troupe of small intellectual art critics with tight buttocks that encumber us in France". - RESTANY Pierre. ART AND TECHNOLOGY. Art and communication. Firenez, Sansoni, 1971. In-8, paperback. Original edition constituted by this reprint. Full-page article sent by Restany to Françoise Choay, historian. PIERRE RESTANY ET LES NOUVEAUX RÉALISTES Pierre Restany (1930-2003), art historian and critic, was a major figure on the art scene in the second half of the 20th century: "A myth!" said Andy Warhol of him. (...) In 1960, he founded, at the home of Yves Klein, the group of the Nouveaux Réalistes, with Arman, Hains, Dufrêne, Raysse, Spoerri, Villeglé, then César, Rotella etc. He organized numerous group exhibitions. (...) and collaborated in several magazines (including Domus) and audio-visual media, in lecture tours in universities and museums. Internationally recognized, he was a committed essayist and critic, adopting an ethical point of view before any aesthetic approach. He never ceased to question the nature and meaning of art in post-industrial society. For him, thanks to Yves Klein, "art has definitively shifted to morality, and aesthetics to ethics.
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