Alain Jouffroy
L'Abolition de l'art
Author(s) Alain Jouffroy
Year 2011
Language(s) French
Pages 96 pages
Publisher Impeccables
Description
First published in February 1968 under the auspices of the Claude Givaudan gallery, L'Abolition de l'art is one of the most emblematic texts among those prefiguring May 68, but also in Alain Jouffroy's reflection on art. Accompanied here, for the first time, by the eponymous film made in its wake, and by two texts that redistribute its stakes ("Que faire de l'art?", written in August 1968, and "Le futur abolira-t-il l'art?", written in 1970), the propositions of L'Abolition de l'art now present themselves as an autonomous ensemble whose inaugural scope Alain Jouffroy expressed in these terms: "It is at the moment when, before a work, we forget that it belongs to art, at the moment when the method of execution arouses in the spectator a method of meditation—a series of acts organized by thought—that we are truly confronted with ourselves, with fire. It is this tipping point that I call the Abolition of art (...)."
This edition, accompanied by the plans of Daniel Pommereulle's "Urgences" and the DVD of the film, is prefaced by Pablo Durán.