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The narrative revolves around three friends—, Serge , and Yvan —whose 15-year bond is tested when Serge buys an expensive, minimalist painting: a five-foot by four-foot canvas that is almost entirely white with faint diagonal lines. "Art" by Yasmina Reza | Literature and Writing - EBSCO
The play revolves around three long-time friends in Paris:
Art is a short, fast-paced play (usually running about 90 minutes) that uses a white canvas to expose the colorful, messy, and often cruel nature of human relationships. If you are studying this for a class or considering it for production, reading the "Nick Hern Books" edition is highly recommended as it includes an excellent introduction by the translator, Christopher Hampton.
If you need the content for analysis quickly:
, an aeronautical engineer, is horrified by the purchase, calling it "cette merde" (this piece of s***) and seeing it as a pretentious, valueless joke.
The narrative revolves around three friends—, Serge , and Yvan —whose 15-year bond is tested when Serge buys an expensive, minimalist painting: a five-foot by four-foot canvas that is almost entirely white with faint diagonal lines. "Art" by Yasmina Reza | Literature and Writing - EBSCO
The play revolves around three long-time friends in Paris:
Art is a short, fast-paced play (usually running about 90 minutes) that uses a white canvas to expose the colorful, messy, and often cruel nature of human relationships. If you are studying this for a class or considering it for production, reading the "Nick Hern Books" edition is highly recommended as it includes an excellent introduction by the translator, Christopher Hampton.
If you need the content for analysis quickly:
, an aeronautical engineer, is horrified by the purchase, calling it "cette merde" (this piece of s***) and seeing it as a pretentious, valueless joke.