Nieuw Jean Clair: Nouvelle subjectivité (1979)

The exhibition Nouvelle Subjectivité (A New Subjectivity) was organized by the essayist and art historian Jean Clair (b. 1940) in Brussels at the Palais des Beaux Arts in 1979. The exhibition presented works from several artists and included David Hockney, Raymond Mason, Philippe Roman, and Sam Szafran as well as R.B. Kitaj.
Nouvelle Subjectivité preceded A New Spirit in Painting, the legendary 1981 exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, by two years. Like the 1981 exhibition, Nouvelle Subjectivité was an early tribute to new currents of figurative and expressionist painting in the mid- to late-seventies as a retort to the prevailing minimalist and conceptual trends in the art of the sixties and seventies. IN FRENCH!