Notes
1. Editor's Note : Aufseherin (plural Aufseherinnen) is the German term for a female overseer in the Nazi death camps during World War II.
2. A voir la pléthore d'artistes qui nous accablent de bons sentiments, il faudrait aussi rappeler que des artistes comme Katinka Bock, Tatiana Trouvé, Gyan Panchal, François Perrodin, Julien Previeux, pour n'en citer que quelques uns, contribuent à aiguiser notre regard et notre pensée… et donc notre attention aux choses et au monde bien plus que tout ce fatras néo-sulpicien contemporain.
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Pierre Wat
Pierre Wat is a professor of art history at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Specialist of European Romanticism, he published Naissance de l'art romantique (Flammation 1998, re-edition Champs Arts 2013), Constable (Hazan, 2002), and Turner, menteur magnifique (Hazan, 2010). He is also the author of a number of studies on comtemporary art, including two monographies: Pierre Buraglio (Flammarion, 2001) and Claude Viallat (Hazan, 2006). His latest work is Portraits d'ateliers, un album de photographies fin-de-siècle (Ellug, 2014).
Jean-Christophe Bailly
Jean-Christophe Bailly is a writer, poet, playwright, and philosopher. The following is a very small and selective sampling of his numerous works: Les îles de la Sonde, in De la déception pure, manifeste froid (Union générale d’éditions, 1973) (with Yves Buin, Serge Sautreau, and André Velter), L'Oiseau Nyiro (La Dogana, 1999), and Basse continue (Seuil, 2000) (poetry); El Pelele (Christian Bourgois, 2003), and Une nuit à la bibliothèque (Christian Bourgois, 2005) (plays); Le Versant animal (Bayard Centurion, 2007), L'Instant et son ombre (Seuil, 2008), and Le Parti pris des animaux (Christian Bourgois, 2013) (essays); Duchamp, L'Atelier infini: 30 000 ans de peinture (Hazan, 2007) (writings on art and architecture). His récit, Le dépaysement: Voyages en France (Seuil, 2011) was awarded the Prix Décembre. He has been teaching since 1997 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage de Blois.
Philippe Cyroulnik
Philip Cyroulnik is an art critic, a member of Association internationale des critiques d'art, and director of 19 CRAC, Centre régional d'art contemporain de Montbéliard. He has curated numerous exhibits, including “Retour sur l'abîme: L'Art à l’épreuve du genocide,” with Nicolas Surlapierre. Among his co-curated collective exhibits: “Une terre trop étroite,” “La peinture mode d'emploi,” and “Urbanidades” at the Ecole nationale des beaux arts de Paris. He has also co-curated many solo shows works by Raymonde April, Francois Bouillon, Ana Gallardo, Joël Kermarrec, Jorge Macchi, Benjamin Swaim, and Michèle Waquan, among others, and has written numerous critical texts.
Nicolas Surlapierre
Nicolas Surlapierre is an art historian, curator of 20th and 21st century art, and director of the museums of Belfort. He is particularly interested in the text-image relation and the intersection of art and psychoanalysis. He has edited several catalogues and published essay collections, among others L'estampe : un art multiple à la portée de tous ? and Les pouvoirs visionnaires de l'Allégorie (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion). He is the author of a history of modern Mexican artists (Éditions du Cercle d'art) and of Dis-Parus : l'abandon de l'histoire dans l'art du 20ème siècle (Editions L'improviste). He co-curated “Hypnos : images et inconscient en Europe 1900-1968,” which displayed the impact of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams on the avant-gardes.