Nice, Paris, New York and beyond? The New Realism in the global geopolitics of the avant-garde

The New Realism was an immediately international avant-garde. But the project to federate a new generation of European creators was soon derailed by the great upheaval in the global geopolitics of art: Paris was now competing with new cultural capitals determined to use the avant-garde to demonstrate their superiority. Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel shows how the New Realists adapted to an increasingly competitive global game, where national pride combined with the most devious commercial interests.