Yve-Alain Bois (born April 16, 1952) is a professor of Art History at the School of Historical Studies at the

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Education

Bois received an

M.A. A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...

from the

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in 1973 for his work on El Lissitzky's typography, and a

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from the

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in 1977 for his work on

Lissitzky Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (russian: link=no, Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий, ; – 30 December 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (russian: link=no, Эль Лиси́цкий; yi, על ליסיצקי), was a Russian artist ...

's and Malevich's conceptions of space. Both of his degrees were supervised under

Roland Barthes Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popula ...

Career

Academic

Bois is a professor at the School of Historical Studies at the

, in the chair inaugurated by

Erwin Panofsky Erwin Panofsky (March 30, 1892 in Hannover – March 14, 1968 in Princeton, New Jersey) was a German-Jewish art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime. Panofsky's work represents a high ...

, and at the

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. From 1991 to 2005, he served on the faculty at

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. Professor in Modern Art, after teaching at

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and at the

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. Bois was elected to the

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in 2016.

Writing

Bois has written books and articles on artists of European

modernism Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

. He is an editor of the journal ''October''.

Articles

"Whose Formalism?" ''Art Bulletin,'' Mar. 1996

Review of Tony Smith retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, ''Artforum'', Nov. 1998Review of "Supports/Surfaces" exhibition at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, ''Artforum'', Dec. 1998Bois and Linda Nochlin discuss the ''Matisse and Picasso'' exhibition, ''Artforum,'' Feb. 1999Review of Barnett Newman retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art, ''Artforum'', Mar. 2002"The Mourning After," panel discussion on painting, ''Artforum'', Mar. 2003On Fred Sandback, ''Artforum,'' Oct. 2003

References

External links

Bois faculty page at European Graduate SchoolInterview with Bois for Folha de Sao Paulo, Caderno Mais!, 2005MIT Press: list of books and articles by BoisAll About Yve: An Interview with Yve-Alain Bois (1995)"From Art to Barthes and Back Again"
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'', September 19, 1991 1952 births Living people People from Constantine, Algeria Algerian art critics Algerian art historians Institute for Advanced Study faculty Harvard University faculty Johns Hopkins University faculty Academic staff of European Graduate School 21st-century Algerian people {{art-historian-stub