Yve-Alain Bois | |
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| Born | April 16, 1952 |
| Alma mater | Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Art history |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study |
| Notable students | Scott Rothkopf |
Yve-Alain Bois (born April 16, 1952) is a professor of Art History at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Education
Bois received an M.A. from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1973 for his work on El Lissitzky's typography, and a Ph.D. from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1977 for his work on Lissitzky's and Malevich's conceptions of space.[1] Both of his degrees were supervised under Roland Barthes.
Career
Academic
Bois is a professor at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in the chair inaugurated by Erwin Panofsky,[1] and at the European Graduate School. From 1991 to 2005, he served on the faculty at Harvard University as Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor in Modern Art,[2] after teaching at Johns Hopkins University and at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.[1][3]
Bois was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2016.[4]
Writing
Bois has written books and articles on artists of European modernism. He is an editor of the journal October.
Articles
- "Whose Formalism?" Art Bulletin, Mar. 1996 European Graduate School
- Review of Tony Smith retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Artforum, Nov. 1998
- Review of "Supports/Surfaces" exhibition at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Artforum, Dec. 1998
- Bois and Linda Nochlin discuss the Matisse and Picasso exhibition, Artforum, Feb. 1999
- Review of Barnett Newman retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Artforum, Mar. 2002
- "The Mourning After," panel discussion on painting, Artforum, Mar. 2003
- On Fred Sandback, Artforum, Oct. 2003
References
- ^ a b c "Biography". The European Graduate School. Archived from the original on February 20, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
- ^ "Yve-Alain Bois". Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- ^ "Destroy, She Said: Remarks on Yve-Alain Bois' 'An Oblique Autobiography'". Selva. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
External links
- Bois faculty page at European Graduate School
- Interview with Bois for Folha de Sao Paulo, Caderno Mais!, 2005
- MIT Press: list of books and articles by Bois
- All About Yve: An Interview with Yve-Alain Bois (1995)
- "From Art to Barthes and Back Again", The Harvard Crimson, September 19, 1991
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