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Theories of art history, museology

Ruptures

Ruptures

De la discontinuité dans la vie artistique

Collective work
A number of 20th-century artistic movements declared their desire to break with the past. The last century was largely...
Les Vies de Dominique-Vivant Denon

Les Vies de Dominique-Vivant Denon

tomes I et II

Collective work
Dominique-Vivant Denon’s multiple talents make for a fascinating biography. What relationship did Denon maintain...

L’avenir des musées

L’avenir des musées

Collective work
Museums have just experienced a glorious quarter-century. A great many construction projects are underway, led by...
Relire Taine

Relire Taine

Collective work
Gauguin and Rimbaud scorned him, his academic contemporaries discussed him, and Nietzsche admired him. Although...

Le regard instruit

Le regard instruit

Action éducative et action culturelle dans les musées

Collective work
While the means employed by the cultural departments of museums around the world may differ – and sometimes even...
Où en est l’interprétation de l’œuvre d’art ?

Où en est l’interprétation de l’œuvre d’art ?

Collective work
This book deals with the core issues in the debate on image: women, “outsiders”, filmmakers, Manet, the...

Qu’est-ce qu’un chef-d’œuvre ?

Qu’est-ce qu’un chef-d’œuvre ?

Collective work
The election of certain works judged, according to criteria specific to each society, to be above others reflects...
Relire Focillon

Relire Focillon

Collective work
The scope of Henri Focillon’s (1881-1943) thought goes hand in hand with the precision of science. His works are...