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Introduction. Witnesses of the Future, Painters of their Times
Sarah Wilson
Description: The Visual World of French Theory: Figurations
The Visual World of French Theory: Figurations
In 1974, Gérard Fromanger was the first French painter to visit Mao’s China. His photograph-based history painting In Huxian, China, exhibited in 1975 with a catalogue by Michel Foucault, was rapidly acquired for France’s national collections...
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Sarah Wilson
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2010 by Sarah Wilson
Related print edition pages: pp.12-28
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00226.001
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20756
Chapter subject tags:Narrative art--20th centuryPainting, French--20th centuryPhilosophers

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