Premises : invested spaces in visual arts and architecture, & design from France, 1958-1998 / [Bernard Blistène, Alison M. Gingeras, Alain Guiheux ; with essays by Joseph Abram [and others].

Catalog for the exhibition held at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, Oct. 13, 1998-Jan. 11, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references.

Director's Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introductory Essays -- Consuming Myths -- Premises, Premises: Sketches in Remembrance of a Recent Graphic Turn in French Thought -- A Genealogy of Time: The Nietzschean Dimension of French Cinema, 1958-98 -- Visual Arts -- Plenty or Nothing: From Yves Klein's Le Vide to Arman's Le Plein -- French Film at the Mirror: The Cultivation and Defacement of the Look -- DATAR: La Mission Photographique -- Localities: Between Public and Private Space -- Sites of Memory -- Enclosures -- Framing the Spatial: Between Voyeurism and the Cinematic -- Zones of Communication/Space of Exchange -- Architecture -- Political Will and the Cultural Identity Crisis in Late-Twentieth-Century French Architecture -- Form versus Relation -- Elevating the Conditions of Living -- The Fabrication of Architecture -- Fragment versus Container -- Devices: Architecture as Mechanism -- Design -- Toward a Semantic and Critical Approach to the Term Design -- Sylvain Dubuisson -- Garouste & Bonetti -- Philippe Starck -- Martin Szekely.

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