Pierre Francastel

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Pierre Francastel (born June 8, 1900 in Paris ; † January 2, 1970 there ) was a French art historian and university professor .

Life

Pierre Francastel first studied literature at the Sorbonne under the Hellenist Paul Mazon (1874–1955). From 1925 he worked in the conservation department at Versailles . In 1930 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the sculptures of Versailles, previously he had already published a catalog raisonné on the artist François Girardon . In the same year Pierre Francastel became director of the Institut français in Warsaw.

In 1936 he became a professor at the University of Strasbourg and there he began to deal with sociological aspects of art production. When the university moved to Clermont-Ferrand in 1939 , he lectured there in 1941 on L'histoire de l'art instrument de la propagande germanique . From 1943 he was a member of the Resistance .

In 1948, Pierre Francastel was appointed to the chair of art sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , newly created by Lucien Febvre . One of his students was Nikos Chatzēnikolau .

Fonts (selection)

  • Girardon: biography et catalog critiques, l'œuvre complète de l'artiste . Paris: Les Beaux-arts, édition d'études et de documents, 1928
  • La sculpture de Versailles; essai sur les origines et l'évolution du gout français classique . Paris: A. Morancé, 1930
  • Les relations artistiques entre la Pologne et la France , in: Revue des Études Slaves, Année 1937, pp. 187–205 [1]
  • Peinture et société: naissance et destruction d'un espace plastique, de la Renaissance au cubisme . Lyon: Audin, 1951
  • La réalité figurative: Éléments structurels de sociologie de l'art . Paris: Éd. Gonthier, 1965
  • La Figure et le lieu, l'ordre visuel du Quattrocento . Paris: Gallimard, 1967
  • Etudes de sociologie de l'art , Paris: Éd. Denoël, 1970
  • L'humanisme roman: Critique des Théories sur l'art du 11e siècle en France . Paris: Mouton, 1970
  • The destruction of plastic image space, in: Bürger, Peter [Hrsg.]: Seminar: Literary and Art Sociology , Frankfurt a. M: Suhrkamp 1978, pp. 371-393

literature

  • Dufrêne, Thierry [Ed.]: Pierre Francastel, l'hypothèse même de l'art , Paris: INHA, 2010
  • Longo, Sara: Piero Della Francesca entre peinture, histoire et théorie: Pierre Francastel, Louis Marin et Daniel Arasse face au cycle de San Francesco d'Arezzo. In: Bulletin de l'Association des Historiens de l'Art Italy , 17.2011, pp. 123–130
  • Ferrier, Jean-Louis [ed.]: La Sociologie de l'art et sa vocation interdisciplinaire: l'œuvre et l'influence de Pierre Francastel. Paris: Denoël / Gonthier, 1976
  • Burke, Peter: Problems of the Sociology of Art: the Work of Pierre Francastel, In: European Journal of Sociology, Vol. 12.1, 1971, pp. 141-154

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sorensen, Lee: Francastel, Pierre . In: Dictionary of Art Historians . February 21, 2018 ( arthistorians.info [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  2. ^ Charpentrat, Pierre: Pierre Francastel . In: Annales . tape 26 , no. 5 , 1971 ( persee.fr [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  3. ^ Mathilde Arnoux: Commentary [on Pierre Francastel, L'histoire de l'art instrument de la propagande germanique, 1945]. In: Kitschen, Friederike; Drost, Julia (Ed.): German Art - French Perspectives: 1870 - 1945; Sources and comments on art criticism. Berlin 2007, pp. 387-392, accessed October 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Encyclopædia Universalis: PIERRE FRANCASTEL. Retrieved October 25, 2018 (French).
  5. ^ Pierre Charpentrat: Pierre Francastel. Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilizations., 1971, accessed October 2018 (French).
  6. ↑ Sorensen, Lee: Hadjinicolaou, Nicos . In: Dictionary of Art Historians . February 21, 2018 ( arthistorians.info [accessed October 25, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Francastel, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1970
Place of death Paris