Catalog accompanying an exhibition opening at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofIa in Madrid in the spring of 2010.
Includes bibliographical references.
Before attitudes became form : new realisms: 1957-1962 / Julia Robinson -- Words, actions, inactions and things : reality between la résistance and l'insoumission / Hannah Feldman -- Close encounters : on Pierre Restany and nouveau réalisme / Ágnes Berecz -- La vitrine, l'éponge: the École de Nice and the "hygiene of vision" / Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen -- Formalism and historicity / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- Catalog of works -- 1957-1962. Major events and centers of activity / compiled by Billy Klüver, Julie Martin, and Hedi Sorger -- On the theme of the exhibition / Sidney Janis -- List of works exhibited