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Yve-Alain Bois: Roland Barthes Chair at EGS, is Joseph Pulitzer Professor of Modern Art and Chair, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. Ph.D. (Paris University) where he studied under Roland Barthes. Co-Editor of the Journal October, a curator and noted philosopher of art. Contributing editor to Artforum. Organizer (with Rosalind Krauss) of the exhibition Formless at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Author of Painting as Model; Formless; Matisse and Picasso.
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Curriculum vitae from Yve-Alain Bois
Born: April 16, 1952 Constantine (Algeria)
Education
Baccalauréat Philosophie. Toulouse 1969 License de Lettres Modernes, Université Paris VII, 1973
Diplôme de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1973 (advisor: Roland Barthes; M.A. on Lissitzky's typography)
Doctorat de III cycle, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1977 (advisor: Roland Barthes; Ph.D. on Lissitzky's and Malevitch's conception of space).
Professional Experience
Co-founder and co-director of the Macula magazine (1976–79) and of the Macula book series, 1976-.
Fellow, Association Marc Bloch, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1976–1977 (research on modern architecture, under the direction of Hubert Damisch).
Scientific director of collective research on art and architecture, Direction de l'Architecture, Ministère de la Culture, 1977–79.
Attaché de recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 1977–81.
Scientific director of rechearch on the history of axonometry, Direction de l'Architecture, Ministère de l'Environnement, 1980–87.
Chargé de recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 1981–83 (research on Mondrian and De Stijl).
Visiting Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 1983–1984.
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 1984–1989.
Co–curator of the exhibition De Stijl and French Architecture in the 1920's, Institut Francais d'Architecture, Paris, November–December 1985.
Professor of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University, 1989–1991.
Getty Scholar, Spring 1990.
Co-editor of the journal October, 1991-
Joseph Pulitzer Jr., Professor of Modern Art, Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University 1991
Co-curator of the Piet Mondrian retrospective (December 1994-1994-April 1995; Gemeentemuseum, The hague; The National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Co-curator of the exhibition L'informe, mode d'emploi, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, May-August 1996.
Curator of the exhibition Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry, Kimbell Art Museum, February-May 1999
Curator of the exhibition Ellsworth Kelly: Early Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge; High Museum, Atlanta; Arts Institute, Chicago; Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, and other venues, March 1999-2000.
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