Jean Clair
Jean Clair (* 20th October 1940 in Paris as Gérard Régnier ) is a French art historian , museum director and author. He was director of the Venice Biennale in 1995 and director of the Musée Picasso .
Life
Jean Clair was born in 1940 to a farming family in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. He attended the Lycée Jacques-Decour and the Lycée Carnot. After graduating from the Baccalauréat , he completed a two-year preparatory course at the Lycée Henri IV for the entrance exam to the Grandes Écoles .
He then studied philosophy with Jean Grenier and art history with André Chastel at the Sorbonne and then obtained his doctorate at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University . Jean Clair then wrote as a literary and art critic for the Nouvelle Revue Française . In 1962, at the age of 22, he took the pseudonym Jean Clair to publish his first novel.
In 1966 Clair passed the entrance examination for museum curators at the Musées de France and was then conservation assistant until 1969. He then 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 Center Georges Pompidou . In 1889 he was appointed chief curator of French cultural heritage. Until 2005 he also directed the Musée Picasso. Clair was the curator of important national exhibitions such as the opening exhibition of the Center Pompidou on Marcel Duchamp (1977), on figurative art (1980), on Balthus and Sam Szafran . In 1995 he was artistic director of the Venice Biennale.
Clair was editor-in-chief of the art magazine Chroniques de l'art vivant between 1970 and 1975. He also founded the Cahiers du musée d'Art moderne , of which he was editor from 1978 to 1986. From 1977 and 1980 he taught as a professor of art history at the École du Louvre .
In 2008 Jean Clair was elected to the 39th armchair of the Académie française . He has been a member of the Académie du Morvan since 2010 .
honors and awards
- 1988: Winner of the Fritz Winter Foundation
- 1992: Prix Psyché
- 1993: Medal for Art History from the Académie d'architecture
- 2008: Officer's Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite
- Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 1998: Knight of the Legion of Honor , officer of the Legion of Honor since 2012
Works
- Les Chemins détournés . Gallimard, Paris, 1962
- Marcel Duchamp or the Grand Fictif . Galilée, Paris, 1975
- Michel Butor, Suzanne Houbart-Wilkin: Delvaux: catalog de l'œuvre peint . Société nouvelle d'éditions internationales, Brussels, 1975
- Considérations sur l'état des Beaux-Arts . Gallimard, Paris, 1983
- Méduse. Contribution to a anthropologie des arts du visuel . Gallimard, Paris, 1989
- Le Voyageur égoïste . Plon, Paris, 1989
- Onze chansons puériles . Editions l'Echoppe, Paris, 1991
- Le Nez de Giacometti . Gallimard, Paris, 1992
- Les Métamorphoses d'Eros . Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1996
- Sam Szafran . Skira, Paris, 1996
- La Responsabilité de l'artiste . Gallimard, Paris, 1997
- Virginie Monnier: Balthus, Catalog raisonné de l'œuvre complet . Gallimard, Paris, 1999
- La Barbarie ordinaire. Music à Dachau . Gallimard, Paris, 2001
- Court traité des sensations . Gallimard, Paris, 2002
- You surréalisme considéré dans ses rapports au totalitarisme et aux tables tournantes . Mille et Une Nuits, Paris, 2003
- Journal atrabilaire . Gallimard, Paris, 2006
- Malaise in the museum . 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 with the 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
Web links
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- Literature by and about Jean Clair in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Éric Biétry-Rivierre: Jean Clair, un “atrabilaire” sous la Coupole , Le Figaro , 23 May 2008.
- ^ A b Notice biographique, Who's Who in France
- ↑ Virginie Bloch-Lainé: Interview with Jean Clair, France Culture , September 3, 2012
- ↑ Two Names, One Character , Die Zeit, August 12, 1994
- ^ Jean Clair entre à l'Académie française , Le Monde , 23 May 2008
- ^ Decree of May 16, 2008 in the Official Gazette of the Republic of France on May 17, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clair, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Régnier, Gérard (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French art historian, curator, museum director and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |