Pierre Restany

French art critic

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In Western painting: Art and consumerism: French and Italian art in the 1950s
…manifesto written by the critic Pierre Restany that asserted that since easel painting was dead, a new embrace of reality was called for. In many ways Restany’s manifesto represented a long-overdue French response to the implications of the Duchampian ready-made, and Arman produced a number of works commenting wryly on…
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