Renée Riese Hubert (July 2, 1916 – May 18, 2005) was a German-born American writer and academic. The daughter of two Jewish physicians, she was born Renée Riese in

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and emigrated to France with her parents in 1933. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Paris, Sorbonne. Hubert moved to

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at the beginning of

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and then joined her parents in

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in 1944. Hubert received a PhD from

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. She taught French and comparative literature at the

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. She published at least six books of French poetry (the first, entitled ''Le Cité borgne,'' came out in 1953) and over 175 articles, and wrote extensively on surrealism and the interaction of verbal and visual in artists' books. Hubert received a

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, a senior

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fellowship and the University of California Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award. She married Judd Hubert, who was a French professor at the University of California, Irvine. Hubert died from a

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at Hoag Hospital in

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at the age of 89.

Selected works

* ''Surrealism and the Book'' (1992) * ''Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism, and Partnership'' (1994) * ''The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists' Books'', with Judd Hubert (1998) * ''Cultural (Dis)connections: Memoirs of a Surrealist Scholar'', autobiography (2006)

References

1916 births 2005 deaths American people of German-Jewish descent American women poets American art critics American art historians Columbia University alumni University of California, Irvine faculty Women art historians American women historians People from Wiesbaden Writers from Hesse 20th-century American women Emigrants from Nazi Germany Immigrants to France Immigrants to the United States 21st-century American women {{US-art-historian-stub