| Titre | Le Raspail vert : les avant-gardes à l'American Center, 1932-1987 | |
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| Auteur | Nelcya Delanoë | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 59, février 1994 La présence américaine en France XIXe-XXe siècles. | |
| Page | 10 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
The American Center Was founded in 1932. It was (and still is) a private, non profit and independent institution. It was also non sectarian, despite its early and tight connection with the American Cathedral. Reverend Beekman, then Dean of the Cathedral, was its founding father. His goal was to make the Center into a meeting spot for Anglo-American students and artists, a place where they would find help and support for their life and work in Paris. Circumstances, history and individual destinies soon turned it into a center of Franco-American avant-guarde centers — modern music, jazz, painting, cinema, video, sculpture, dance, languages, you name it... if at all possible ! Encounters and collaborations of an unusual sort made the Center into a hot-bed of pioneers in experimentation, transmission and disruption, but also in diffusion. After 50 years of improbable exchanges and seminal creations, which modified French and American arts at large, the American Center moved from Montparnasse to la Halle aux vins, in Bercy, a move that is in keeping with a larger eastward movement in the capital. The Center will re-open in the Spring of 1994, in a brand new building, designed by famous Frank Gehry. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1994_num_59_1_1528 |
