Raymond Hains: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.(Brief Article)

"Raymond Hains, la tentative": The very title of the show--"Raymond Hains: The Attempt"--underscores the difficulties involved in mounting a Hains retrospective. The first challenge is posed by the sheer variety of the artist's oeuvre, from his photographs taken through fluted lenses and the torn posters he first realized with Jacques de la Villegle in to his Nouveau Realiste work alongside Yves Klein in the '60s, to his recent collages of digital images, "Macintoshages," 1997-.

The second hurdle is Hains himself, who has long avoided participation in a ...

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