Art historian, curator, and museum director Michel Laclotte has been at the forefront of French cultural life over the past half century. This informal autobiography sheds light on his brilliant career with warmth and directness. Highlights include twenty years as chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Mus???e du Louvre, heading the team that created the Mus???e d'Orsay, and taking the reins of the Louvre to lead the effort that culminated in the museum's transformation into the "Grand Louvre," one of the world's ...
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Art historian, curator, and museum director Michel Laclotte has been at the forefront of French cultural life over the past half century. This informal autobiography sheds light on his brilliant career with warmth and directness. Highlights include twenty years as chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Mus???e du Louvre, heading the team that created the Mus???e d'Orsay, and taking the reins of the Louvre to lead the effort that culminated in the museum's transformation into the "Grand Louvre," one of the world's preeminent cultural attractions. Raising the curtain on fifty years of Western art scholarship, intrigue, and achievement, Laclotte introduces an extraordinary cast of characters who set France's cultural direction in the postwar period from Charles de Gaulle and Andr??? Malraux in the 1950s to Fran???ois Mitterand in the 1980s and 1990s. His story overlaps with virtually every major scholarly figure in French art history of the last half-century, as well as Laclotte's mentors and colleagues throughout and beyond Europe, from Roberto Longhi and Anthony Blunt to Sir John Pope-Hennessy and Millard Meiss. An incomparable testament to a period of seismic change in the museum world, this volume will be essential reading for art world afficianados and all students of art and modern culture.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; First US Edition. Paperback in Good Condition. Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti. 368 pages, 8 page section of art works on glossy paper. Brown illus wraps clean, with light crease down front near fore edge and first few pages, light wear around cover edges, spine heel lightly scuffed. No spine creases. Binding tight and solid, square. Pages completely clean and free from any markings. Laclotte was art historian, curator, teacher, and museum director at the Musee de Louvre (1951-1994) and the chief curator for twenty years, working on such projects as the Musee d'Orsay in Paris; Musee du Petir Palais in Avignon, while enriching the Louvvre collections with masterpieces by Piero della Fancesca, Georges de la Tour, and Vermeer. Later he oversaw the 'Grand Louvre' project which transformed the museum and made its glass pyramid one of the city's most distinctive landmarks. 368 pp with Notes and Index. 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall. 2004, Abbeville Press.
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