Yve alain bois biography

Biography.
Yve-Alain Bois (born April 16, 1952) is a professor emeritus of Art History at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in.
Yve-Alain Bois is a professor emeritus of art history at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Book review: Yve-Alain Bois, An Oblique Autobiography (New York and San Francisco: no place press, 2022). 376 pp., 6 x 8 in, 31 b&w ills. Paperback. ISBN 9781949484083.

It is a cliché to refer to the long economic boom in France that followed the Second World War—the three decades between 1945 and 1975—as les trente glorieuses. The phrase has no satisfying translation, though “golden” hints at the éclat thrown off by the final adjective. Adopting this terminology for our ends, we might refer to the 1980s as Yve-Alain Bois’ décennie glorieuse, a splendid ten years during which the now-celebrated art historian simply could not miss. After spending the decade’s first few years in a research post funded by the French state, Michael Fried invited Bois to take a visiting professorship at Johns Hopkins in 1983, as a temporary replacement for the departing Nancy Troy; within a month, he was offered a position as an associate professor. Firmly ensconced in the American academy, he would publish over the next several years a series of magisterial studies which established his r

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A specialist in twentieth-century European and American art, Bois is recognized as an expert on a wide range of artists, from Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso to Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, and Ellsworth Kelly. He has curated and co-curated a number of influential exhibitions, including Piet Mondrian, A Retrospective (1994); L’informe, mode d’emploi (1996); Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry (1999); and Picasso Harlequin 1917–1937 (2008). His books include Ellsworth Kelly: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture: Vol. 1, 1940–1953 (2015); Matisse in the Barnes Foundation (2015); Art Since 1900 (with Benjamin Buchloh, Hal Foster, and Rosalind Krauss, 2004); Matisse and Picasso (1998); Formless: A User’s Guide (with Rosalind Krauss, 1997); and Painting as Model (1990). Bois is currently working on several long-term projects, foremost among them the five-volume catalogue raisonné of Ellsworth Kelly’s paintings and sculptures.

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Yve-Alain Bois

Yve-Alain Bois (b.1952 in Constantine, Algeria) is Professor of Art History in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Bois received his PhD. from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1977) and his M.A. from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, also in Paris (1973); both degrees were supervised by Roland Barthes.

Having served as Attaché de recherche (1977–81) and Chargé de recherche (1981–83) at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Bois taught at Johns Hopkins University until 1991. Following this, he was The Joseph Pulitzer Professor of Modern Art (1991-2005) as well as Chair of the Department of History of Art and Architecture (2002-2005) at Harvard University.

An expert on 20^thcentury European and American art, Bois has (co-)curated the exhibitions “Ellsworth Kelly: Early Drawings” (Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge; High Museum, Atlanta; Arts Institute, Chicago; Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, among others