Jean Clair

Jean Clair ( born October 20, 1940 in Paris as Gérard Régnier ) is a French art historian, museum director and author. He was head of the Venice Biennale in 1995 and director of the Musée Picasso.

Life

Jean Clair was born in 1940 as the son of a peasant family in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. He attended the Lycée Jacques- Decour and the Lycée Carnot. After the Baccalauréat, he completed then a two-year preparatory course from Lycée Henri IV for the entrance examination to the Grandes Ecoles.

He then studied philosophy at the Sorbonne Jean Grenier and art history at André Chastel and then his doctorate at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University. Jean Clair wrote then as a literary and art critic for the Nouvelle Revue Française. At the age of 22, he took the pseudonym Jean Clair in 1962 to publish his first novel.

1966 consisted Clair the entrance examination for museum curators at the Musées de France and then was a conservation assistant until 1969. Then he worked for 10 years as a curator at the Musée National d' Art Moderne, and then from 1980 to 1989 in the graphics department of the Centre Georges Pompidou. 1889 he was appointed to Chief Conservator of French cultural heritage. Until 2005, he also led the Musée Picasso. Clair was curator of major national exhibitions such as the opening exhibition at the Centre Pompidou to Marcel Duchamp (1977 ), to representational art (1980 ), to Balthus and Sam Szafran. In 1995 he was artistic director of the Biennale in Venice.

Clair was 1970-1975 editor of the art magazine Chroniques de l'art vivant He also Cahiers du musée d' Art moderne, whose editor he was from 1978 to 1986 founded. Between 1977 and 1980 he taught as a professor of art history at the École du Louvre.

Jean Clair was elected in 2008 on the 39th fauteuil of the Académie française .. He is since 2010 member of the Académie du Morvan.

Honors and Awards

Works

  • Les Chemins détournés. Gallimard, Paris, 1962
  • Marcel Duchamp ou le Grand Fictif. Galilée, Paris, 1975
  • Michel Butor, Suzanne Houbart - Wilkin: Delvaux: catalog de ​​l' oeuvre peint. Société nouvelle d' éditions international, Brussels, 1975
  • Considérations sur l' état ​​des Beaux -Arts. Gallimard, Paris, 1983
  • Méduse. Contribution à une anthropologie des arts du visual. Gallimard, Paris, 1989
  • Le Voyageur égoïste. Plon, Paris, 1989
  • Onze chansons puerile. Editions l' Echoppe, Paris, 1991
  • Le Nez de Giacometti. Gallimard, Paris, 1992
  • Les Metamorphoses d' Eros. Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1996
  • Sam Szafran. Skira, Paris, 1996
  • La Responsabilité de l'artiste. Gallimard, Paris, 1997
  • Virginie Monnier: Balthus, Catalogue raisonné de l' oeuvre complet. Gallimard, Paris, 1999
  • La Barbarie ordinaire. Music à Dachau. Gallimard, Paris, 2001
  • Court traité des sensations. Gallimard, Paris, 2002
  • You surréalisme considere dans ses rapports au totalitarisme et aux tables tournantes. Mille et Une Nuits, Paris, 2003
  • Journal atrabilaire. Gallimard, Paris, 2006
  • Malaise dans les musées. Flammarion, Paris, 2007
  • Lait noir de l' aube. Gallimard, Paris, 2007
  • Autoportrait au visage absent. Gallimard, Paris, 2008
  • La Tourterelle et le chat Huant. Gallimard, Paris, 2009
  • Charles Juliet, Ida Barbarigo: Zoran Music: Apprendre à regarder la mort comme un soleil. Somogy, Paris, 2009
  • L' Hiver de la culture. Flammarion, Paris, 2011
  • Dialogue avec les morts. Gallimard, Paris, 2011
  • Hubris. Gallimard, Paris, 2012
  • Le Temps des avant - gardes. Chroniques d'art 1968-1978. La Différence, Paris, 2012
  • Les Derniers Jours. Gallimard, Paris, 2013
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