Élisabeth Lebovici (born 1953) is a French art historian, journalist, and art critic.
Biography
Élisabeth Lebovici completed her studies in Paris and New York, where she was enrolled in the Independent Study Program at the
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...
. In 1983, she defended her thesis ''L'Argent dans le discours des artistes américains, 1980-81''
oney in the discourse of American artists, 1980-81at the
Université Paris X.
In 1991, she joined the staff of the French newspaper
Libération
''Libération'' (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far-left of France's ...
, where she worked until 2006. She was previously editor-in-chef of the magazine ''Beaux Arts ''and contributed as well to the journal ''
art press''. Since 2006 she coorganizes the seminar "Something You Should Know: artistes et producteurs" at the
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and ''grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...
in Paris.
She is particularly interested in studying genders and sexualities, and is engaged in examining the relationships between feminism, queer theory, art history, and contemporary art.
Élisabeth Lebovici is the author of numerous monographic studies on contemporary artists and teaches at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. She is also an advocate for LGBT rights.
Bibliography
* ''Ruggieri: 150 ans de feux d'artifice'', with Patrick Braco,
éditions Denoël, 1989.
* ''
Annette Messager
Annette Messager (born 30 November 1943) is a French visual artist. In 2005 she won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale for her artwork at the French Pavilion. In 2016, she won the prestigious Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award. ...
'': ''Faire Parade'', éditions
Paris Musées
Paris Musées is a public institution that has incorporated in the same entity the 14 City of Paris Museums plus staff in charge of management, collection monitoring and production of exhibitions, events and editions, bringing together about 1000 e ...
(MAMVP), 1995,
().
* ''
Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun (, born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer.
Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portr ...
photographe'', with François Leperlier, éditions Paris Musées et Jean-Michel Place, 1995.
* ''
Zoe Leonard
Zoe Leonard (born 1961) is an American artist who works primarily with photography and sculpture. She has exhibited widely since the late 1980s and her work has been included in a number of seminal exhibitions including Documenta IX and Documenta ...
'', éditions du
Centre national de la photographie
The Centre national de la photographie is a French association managed by the Ministry of Culture, dedicated to photography and contemporary art.
In 2004 it merged with the "Patrimoine photographique" to create the association of the Galerie natio ...
, 1998,
().
* ''L'Intime'', editor, éditions de l'
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Science ...
, 1998,
().
* ''
Philippe Thomas
Philippe Thomas (4 May 1843 – 12 February 1910) was a French veterinarian and amateur geologist who discovered large deposits of phosphates in Tunisia.
Despite the huge economic importance of his discovery, he received little recognition during ...
'', with Corinne Diserens, Daniel Soutif, Jean-Philippe Antoine, and Patricia Falguières,
Musée d'art contemporain de Barcelone et
Le Magasin
Founded in 1986, Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain is housed in an industrial hall, built for the 1900 Paris World's Fair by the workshops of Gustave Eiffel. Manufacturers Bouchayer and Viallet, working in the area of hydroelectric ...
, 2000–2001.
* ''If on a Winter's Night…
Roni Horn
Roni Horn (born September 25, 1955) is an American visual artist and writer. The granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants, she was born in New York City, where she lives and works. She is currently represented by Xavier Hufkens in Brussels an ...
,'' with Urs Stahel, éditions
Steidl Verlag, 2005,
().
* ''
Valérie Mréjen
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Valéry or Valery is a masculine given name in parts of Europe (particularly in France and Russia), as well as a common surname in Fra ...
'', monograph, éditions Léo Scheer, coll. Pointligneplan, 2005,
().
* ''Georges Tony Stoll,'' with Dominique Baqué, éditions du Regard, 2006,
().
* ''Femmes artistes/Artistes femmes: Paris, de 1880 à nos jours,'' with Catherine Gonnard, éditions Hazan, 2007,
().
* ''
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (; 25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a varie ...
'', with Marie-Laure Bernadac and Frances Morris, Tate Publishing
(), 2007; and with Jonas Storsve,
Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...
, 2008,
().
* ''Zoe Leonard: photographs'', with Urs Stahel, Svetlana Alpers, and Zoe Leonard,
Steidl Verlag, 2008
().
* ''
Olga Kisseleva
''Olga Kisseleva'' is a French artist. Olga Kisseleva works mainly in installation, science and media art. Her work employs various media, including video, immersive virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, large-scale art insta ...
: Mondes croisés'', éditions Archibook, 2008
().
* ''À Roni Horn'', with Éric Mézil, éditions de la collection Lambert &
Éditions Phébus
The éditions Phébus is a French publishing house established in 1976 by Jean-Pierre Sicre and taken over in 2003 by the .
Catalogue
Phébus publishes a catalog of French and foreign literature that is both contemporary ( Julie Otsuka, Elif Sh ...
, 2009,
().
* ''
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* Martin City (disambiguation)
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Antarctica
* Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land
* Port Martin, Adelie Land
* Point Martin, South Orkney Islands
Austral ...
'', éditions JPR, Ringier, 2010,
().
* ''
Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero (August 24, 1926 – October 18, 2009) was an American visual artist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Spero lived for much of her life in New York City. She married and collaborated with artist Leon Golub. As both artist and activist, Nanc ...
, œuvres sur papier 1926-2009'', with Jonas Storsve, éditions Gallimard/Centre Pompidou, 2010,
().
* ''Brigit Jürgenssen'', with Gabriele Schor and Heike Eipeldauer, Bank Austria Forum Sammlung/Prestel Verlag, 2010
().
* ''Mark Morrisroe: « in the Darkroom »'', with Beatrix Ruf, Thomas Seelig... JRP/Ringier, 2010,
().
* ''Tacita Dean, the Friar's Doodle'', with Lynne Cooke, Abadia de Santo Domingo de Silos/Madrid,
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa
The ''Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa'' ("Queen SofÃa National Museum Art Centre"; MNCARS) is Spain's national museum of 20th-century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992, and is named for Queen SofÃa. It ...
, Actar, 2010,
().
* ''General Idea, Trouble dans le genre'', with Frédéric Bonnet, Paris-Musées and JRP/RIngier, 2011,
().
* ''Looking For Rosa Barba'', in ''
Rosa Barba
Rosa Barba (born 1972, Agrigento, Italy) is a German-Italian visual artist and filmmaker. Barba is known for using the medium of film and its materiality to create cinematic film installations, sculptures and publications, which inquire into the ...
. White is an Image'', ed. Chiara Parisi and Andrea Villiani,
Hatje Cantz
Hatje Cantz Verlag (English: Hatje Cantz Publishing) is a German book publisher specialising in photography, art, architecture and design. It was established in 1945 by Gerd Hatje[Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Lili Reynaud-Dewar (born 1975 in La Rochelle) is a French installation and performance artist. She currently lives and works in Grenoble and Geneva. Her work has been exhibited in many international surveys, including the 5th Berlin Biennale (2008 ...]
'', ed. Michele Robecchi,
Phaidon, 2019, p. 230-235,
().
References
External links
* ''
Authority control
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'':
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International Standard Name Identifier
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* https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-279-elisabeth-lebovici, Conversation/podcast with Élisabeth Lebovici, 2019
* http://le-beau-vice.blogspot.fr/, Élisabeth Lebovici's official blog (in French)
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French art critics
French art historians
1953 births
Living people
French art curators
French women curators
French women historians
French women art critics