Yve-Alain Bois

Yve-Alain Bois (born April 16, 1952) is a professor ofArt History at the School of Historical Studies at theInstitute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

1 EducationBois received an M.A. from the cole Pratique desHautes tudes in 1973 for his work on El Lissitzkys ty-pography, and a Ph.D. from the cole des Hautes tudesen Sciences Sociales in 1977 for his work on Lissitzkysand Malevichs conceptions of space.[1] Both of his de-grees were supervised under Roland Barthes.

2 Career

2.1 Academic careerBois is a professor at the European Graduate School andat the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Ad-vanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in the chair inau-gurated by Erwin Panofsky.[1] Previously, he served onthe faculty at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins Uni-versity, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scien-tique.[1]

2.2 WritingBois has written books and articles on artists of Europeanmodernism. He is an editor of the journal October.

3 Articles Whose Formalism?" Art Bulletin, Mar. 1996European Graduate School

Review of Tony Smith retrospective at the Museumof Modern Art, New York, Artforum, Nov. 1998

Review of Supports/Surfaces exhibition at the Ga-lerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Artforum, Dec.1998

Bois and Linda Nochlin discuss the Matisse and Pi-casso exhibition, Artforum, Feb. 1999

Review of Barnett Newman retrospective, Philadel-phia Museum of Art, Artforum, Mar. 2002

TheMourningAfter, panel discussion on painting,Artforum, Mar. 2003

On Fred Sandback, Artforum, Oct. 2003

4 References[1] Biography. The European Graduate School. Retrieved

February 25, 2012.

5 External links Bois faculty page at European Graduate School Interviewwith Bois for Folha de Sao Paulo, CadernoMais!, 2005

MIT Press: list of books and articles by Bois All About Yve: An Interview with Yve-Alain Bois(1995)

From Art to Barthes and Back Again, The Har-vard Crimson, September 19, 1991

1

2 6 TEXT AND IMAGE SOURCES, CONTRIBUTORS, AND LICENSES

6 Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses6.1 Text

Yve-Alain Bois Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yve-Alain_Bois?oldid=663896850 Contributors: Tedernst, Jahsonic, Andres,Charles Matthews, BD2412, Koavf, YurikBot, Brandmeister (old), Avalon, JoanneB, Oswax, Kubra, SmackBot, Aelfthrytha, Betacom-mand, Bluebot, GoodDay, Grhabyt, Blima3000, MarylandArtLover, Themightyquill, Thijs!bot, Alpinu, Waacstats, Wayne Miller, Acmi-lan10italia, BOTijo, Gamsbart, RS1900, Addbot, Cicerosilva, Bbb23, Omnipaedista, RjwilmsiBot, Acather96, WikitanvirBot, Artiquities,Sholomsholom, Philososlav, Index theory, Cittaaperta, Joh345, VIAFbot, KasparBot and Anonymous: 9

6.2 Images

6.3 Content license Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

EducationCareerAcademic careerWriting

ArticlesReferencesExternal links Text and image sources, contributors, and licensesTextImagesContent license