3 Clark, the Art Avant-Garde of the 1970s and the French establishment

Yve-Alain Bois, starting at a very young age, published French
articles on Lygia Clark such as “Lygia, l’art hors des enceintes”
(art outside the system), f.e. in March 1969 for the newspaper
Réforme. Bois asked there “saura-t’elle mettre l’art dans la rue?”,
that is: will she be able to bring art to the streets?” Clark lived
in Paris at the time where she stayed until 1976, a period full of
disruptive but important social reforms. In this episode, Bois
tells us about his personal encounter with the visionary artist,
how she was involved in writing for the cultural magazine Robho
edited by Bois‘ close friend Jean Clay, or also the rather ignorant
attitude of the establishment towards contemporary art at the time.