Eric de Chassey

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Éric de Chassey (born January 1, 1965 in Pittsburgh ) is a French art historian and author .

Life

Chassey was a professor of art history at Tours University. Since September 2009 he has succeeded Frédéric Mitterrand as director of the Académie de France à Rome .

Works (selection)

  • La violence décorative: Matisse et les États-Unis , Nîmes, Editions Jacqueline Chambon, 1998
  • La peinture efficace, Une histoire de l'abstraction aux États-Unis , 1910–1960, Paris, Editions Gallimard, 2001
  • Henri Matisse - Ellsworth Kelly - Dessins de plantes (in collaboration with Rémi Labrusse ), Paris, Gallimard et Center Pompidou, 2002
  • Version américaine, Henri Matisse-Ellsworth Kelly-Plant Drawings , New York City, Ginkgo Press, 2002
  • Pascal Pinaud , Transpainting , Geneva, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, 2003
  • The Gilbert and Catherine Brownstone Collection: Hydraulic Muscles Pneumatic Smiles , Palm Beach, Norton Museum, 2003
  • Eugène Leroy , autoportrait , Paris, Gallimard, 2004
  • Platitudes, Une histoire de la photographie plate , Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 2006
  • Pour l'histoire de l'art , Arles, Actes Sud, 2011

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