ENGLISH VERSION

Professor, Université de Lyon-Saint-Etienne.Université Jean Monnet

Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France) 

RESEARCH FIELDS

History of art XXe - XXI e century, including the relationship between art, Sciences, litterature, politic and cinema.

Studies on Surrealism and the years 1910-1970 and in particular on its internationalization.

Studies on lettrism International Situationnist and the period post World War II

Artists's Libraries

Transatlantics cultural transfers USA-France, History of the art 1960-2000, research on new media.

Artists and landscapes (Land art...)

Art brut, Folk art

internationalization of group artists in Europe in the 1960-1980

Permanent member of the Centre de recherches Histoire de l’Art et Représentations (HAR) – EA de l'Université Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense.

Associate member of the Centre de recherches sur le surréalisme de Paris-3-Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Mélusine)

Associate member of the Centre de recherches André Chastel (Erco – History of contemporary art team (Équipe de recherche en histoire de l'art contemporain) (XXe-XXIe siècle)).

Associate member of the ITEM (UMR CNRS / ENS - UMR 8132)

HIGHLIGHTS OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Many international publications on transdisciplinary topics.

(France, Malta, Cyprus, Japan, Switzerland, Israel, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Spain, Morocco, Finland, Romania)

MISCELLANEOUS

Editor of the series "ArTguments", University Press of Paris Ouest Nanterre.

Member of selection committee  of  the University of Grenoble for the position of Maitre de conférences : history of art after 1945.

Allocation for research theory and art criticism, Centre national des arts plastiques, French Ministry of Culture and Communication, 2009 and 2017.

Professor of contemporary art history at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris ( Sciences-Po) 2009

Expert for United Nation (UNESCO) for the new museum of contemporary art in Morocco (Rabat) 2008.

Professor of contemporary art history at the Ecole du Louvre, 2007

Library Grant of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2006.