Too French
Copublication Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas / Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Bilingual French / Japanese version
Hardback, 22.5 × 28.5 cm, 267 pages, 243 color and black-and-white reproductionsForeword by Toshio Hara and Marie-Claude Beaud
Texts by Hervé Chandès, Robert Rosenblum, Louis Marin, Yves Michaud, Fei Dawei
ISBN: 962-215-103-5
Publication: April 1992
About the publication
In 1992, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presented the exhibition Too French at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, bringing together 21 artists. Over and above their historical and aesthetic ties, the works exhibited evoked colors and landscapes reminiscent of France. More than a list of artists, this exhibition proposed a critical look at French creation.
Critical collaboration from Louis Marin, Yves Michaud, Robert Rosenblum, and Fei Dawei quashed or confirmed this intention and acted as a kind of “sub-title” to the 20 sets of works reproduced in the exhibition catalog.