Pierre Nahon's 'L'art content pour rien' Defends Art Dealing

Pierre Nahon, co-founder of the Galerie Nahon in Paris, has published a book titled 'L'art content pour rien' (Art Happy for Nothing). The book recounts his and his wife Marianne's experiences as art dealers, addressing the controversy surrounding a documentary by Arte that they and some of their artists were victims of. Nahon defends his commercial success in the art world, arguing against the French cultural hypocrisy that stigmatizes profit from art. He details the making of the documentary and the subsequent media 'lynching' after its broadcast. The book also criticizes French cultural institutions and museum curators for neglecting artists such as Klossowski, Arman, Dufour, Dado, and César, who never had retrospectives at the Centre Pompidou. Nahon emphasizes his loyalty to less commercially successful artists like Dado and Bernard Dufour. The book blends memoirs with philosophical references to Nietzsche, Lacan, and Heidegger.