Marcelin Pleynet (born 23 December 1933, in

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

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) is a French poet, art critic and essayist. He was Managing Editor of the influential magazine ''

Tel Quel ''Tel Quel'' (translated into English as, variously: "as is," "as such," or "unchanged") was a French avant-garde literary magazine published between 1960 and 1982. History and profile ''Tel Quel'' was founded in 1960 in Paris by Philippe Soll ...

'' from 1962 to 1982, and co-edits the journal ''

L'Infini ''L'Infini'' (in English ''Infinity'') is a French literary collection and magazine, established in 1983 in Paris by Philippe Sollers as a follow up of the magazine ''Tel Quel''. The magazine was first published by Éditions Denoël and later o ...

'' (Gallimard) with

Philippe Sollers Philippe Sollers (; born Philippe Joyaux; 28 November 1936) is a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the ''avant garde'' literary journal ''Tel Quel'' (along with writer and art critic Marcelin Pleynet), which was published by Le Se ...

. He was Professor of Aesthetics at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in

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from 1987 to 1998. He has published numerous monographs on 20th-century art, notably ''Situation de l’art moderne: Paris-New York'' (in association with

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), ''Henri Matisse'','' Robert Motherwell: La vérité en peinture'', ''Les Modernes et la tradition'', ''Les États-Units de la peinture'' and ''L’art abstrait''. He has also published books of poetry and the novel ''Prise d’otage'', and an edition of ''Giorgione et les deux Vénus''.

Bibliography

Essays

*Le savoir-vivre, Gallimard, 2006 *Alechinsky le pinceau voyageur, Gallimard, 2002 *Rothko et la France, L'épure Eds, 1999 *Rimbaud en son temps, Gallimard, 2005 *Judit Reigl, L'insolite-Adam Biro, 2001 *Les voyageurs de l'an 2000, Gallimard, 2000 *Poésie et "révolution", la révolution du style, Pleins Feux Eds, 2000 *Chardin - Le sentiment et l'esprit du temps, L'épure Eds, 1999 *Rothko et la France, L'épure Eds, 1999 *Notes sur le motif suivi de La Dogana, Dumerchez Naoum, 1998 *Lautréamont, Seuil, 1998 *L'homme habite poétiquement, Actes Sud, 1998 *Une saison, Dumerchez Naoum, 1996 *Henri Matisse, Gallimard, 1993 *Les modernes et la tradition, Gallimard, 1990 *''L'Art abstrait'', tome 5 (avec

Michel Ragon Michel Ragon (24 June 1924 – 14 February 2020) was a French art and literature critic and writer. His primary focus was on anarchic and libertarian literature. Biography Ragon was born into a poor family on 24 June 1924 in Marseille, but spent ...

), Adrien Maeght, 1988 *New-York Series, les sculptures en cire de

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, galerie Gary, Paris, 1979/88 *Les Etats-Unis de la peinture, Seuil, 1986 *Fenêtre sur le Japon, exhibition of

, Central color Paris, 1986 *La place de

dans l'art contemporain (Situation pièce, Centre d'Action Culturelle, Saint Brieux, text read by the author), 1984 *Painting and System, Univ of Chicago, 1984 *Modernism-Modernity and the Philosophy of History, NSCAD Univ Press, 1983/2004

Poetry

*Le Pontos, Gallimard, 2002 *Premières poésies, Cadex, 1988 *Fragments du choeur - vers et proses, Denoël, 1984 *Le propre du temps, Gallimard, 1995 *Stanze, Seuil, 1973

Novels

*Prise d'otage, Gallimard 1986 *La vie à deux ou à trois, Gallimard, 1992

References

*Philippe Forest, ''Histoire de Tel Quel'', Seuil, coll. « ''Fiction et Cie'' », 1995.

External links

Official website
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