By Michel Laclotte,Mark Polizzotti
ISBN-10: 0789208202
ISBN-13: 9780789208200
ISBN-10: 0789208210
ISBN-13: 9780789208217
Art historian, curator, and museum director Michel Laclotte has been on the leading edge of French cultural existence during the last part century. This casual autobiography sheds gentle on his excellent profession with heat and directness. Highlights contain 20 years as leader curator of portray and sculpture on the Musée du Louvre, heading the crew that created the Musée dOrsay, and taking the reins of the Louvre to guide the hassle that culminated within the museums transformation into the Grand Louvre,” one of many worlds preeminent cultural attractions.
Raising the curtain on fifty years of Western artwork scholarship, intrigue, and fulfillment, Laclotte introduces a rare solid of characters who set Frances cultural course within the postwar interval from Charles de Gaulle and André Malraux within the Nineteen Fifties to François Mitterand within the Eighties and Nineties. His tale overlaps with nearly each significant scholarly determine in French artwork historical past of the final half-century, in addition to Laclottes mentors and associates all through and past Europe, from Roberto Longhi and Anthony Blunt to Sir John Pope-Hennessy and Millard Meiss. An incomparable testomony to a interval of seismic swap within the museum international, this quantity can be crucial examining for paintings global afficianados and all scholars of paintings and smooth culture.
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