Gilbert Lascault
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Gilbert Lascault (1934 – 2022) was a French novelist, essayist, and art critic known for such books as Le monstre dans l'art occidental : Un problème esthétique (1973).
Biography
Agrégé of philosophy in 1960, Gilbert Lascault began writing his thesis, « Le monstre dans l’art occidental » ("The monster in Western art"), an essay of aesthetics inaugurating his writings to come. He discovered contemporary art by meeting Henri Michaux and Jean Dubuffet.
An engraver and calligrapher, Gilbert Lascault taught aesthetics and the philosophy of art the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense (from 1988) then at the Sorbonne (since the second half of the 1990s), "proposing" seminars of uncertainty "to students and researchers in philosophy, art history and plastic arts".
A specialist in surrealism, he has published several books on this subject.
He writes and has written in numerous magazines: Traverses, Template:Ill, L’Art Vivant, Artstudio, XXe, Template:Ill, La Revue d’esthétique
For many years, he is one of the "pillars", of the Template:Ill program on France Culture, and has long participated in Panorama and Template:Ill. In 1995, he was the guest of honor of the Oulipo.
Gilbert Lascault participated, as author, in the realization of a large number of artist's books with, in particular, Pierre Alechinsky, Marcel Alocco, Template:Ill, Eliz Barbosa, Cantié, Henri Cueco, Template:Ill, Ghislaine Escande, Nathalie Grall, Françoise Gründ, Philippe Hélénon, Joël Leick, Stanislav Marijanović, Marianne Montchougny, Template:Ill, Gaëlle Pelachaud, Denis Pouppeville, Antonio Seguí, Brigitte Tartière, Template:Ill, and Template:Ill
He has also written extensively on the works of artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Jean Tinguely, Pierre Alechinsky, Template:Ill, Vladimir Veličković, Coco Téxèdre, Template:Ill, Template:Ill, Anne and Patrick Poirier, Template:Ill, Template:Ill, Henri Cueco, Christian Boltanski, Leonardo Cremonini, Bang Hai Ja.
Since 4 May 2005, he is Template:Ill at the chair of Teratoscopy & Dinography.
In 2014, the Template:Ill of Issoudun devoted a large retrospective exhibition « Les chambres hantées de Gilbert Lascault ».µ
Publications
- 1963: Le Monstre dans l'art occidental, Template:Ill
- 1969: Esthétique et psychanalyse, in La Psychanalyse, collectif, éd.: S.G.P.P.; series "Le point de la question"
- 1975: Un monde miné, Template:Ill
- 1976: Enfances choisies, Christian Bourgois
- 1976: With Template:Ill, Alphabet d'Éros, Paris, Ed. Galilée
- 1977: Figurées, défigurées : petit vocabulaire de la féminité représentée, Union générale d’édition (UGE), series Template:Ill, Paris
- 1977: Un îlot tempéré, Christian Bourgois
- 1979: Écrits timides sur le visible, UGE, 10/18, Paris
- 1979: Voyage d'automne et d'hiver, Christian Bourgois
- 1981: La destinée de Jean Simon Castor, Christian Bourgois
- 1981: Boucles et nœuds, Template:Ill
- 1982: Alexandre Bonnier - Autour d'images et d'écrits, Editions Shakespeare International
- 1982: Un herbier pour Template:Ill
- 1983: Encyclopédie abrégée de l'empire vert, Maurice Nadeau
- 1983: Marmottes à l'imparfait (illustrations by Jan Voss), Ryōan-ji
- 1983: Arrondissements (illustrations by Pierre Alechinsky ), Repères
- 1984: Coutume des Vents, illustrations by Template:Ill, éd. Fata Morgana, Montpellier
- 1984: Malaval, Art Press/Flammarion
- 1985: Faire et défaire, éd. Fata Morgana, Montpellier
- 1985: Éloges à Geneviève, novel, Balland
- 1985: Francis Limérat and Jean-Pierre Vielfaure - Les arpenteurs de l'utopie, parcours, Éditions du C.A.C. Pablo-Neruda, Corbeil-Esonnes
- 1986: La Grande Forêt Alquin, illustrations by Nicolas Alquin, éd. Le Salon d’Art, Brussels
- 1986: Les amours d'Arthur-toujours-là et de Monica-Belle-de-Givre, illustrations by Petra Werlé, Baby Lone, Strasbourg
- 1986: Consanguins d'Omènes, illustrations by Janko Stanovnik, éd. Tropismes
- 1987: Jeux d’échecs – Jeu de guerres, illustrations by Nicolas Alquin, éd. L’Échoppe, Caen
- 1987: 420 minutes dans la cité des ombres, éd. Ramsay, Caen
- 1989: Le petit chaperon rouge, partout, Template:Ill
- 1992: Jour de désert, illustrations by Nicolas Alquin, éd. L’Échoppe
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- 2014: Les Chambres hantées, Tarabuste éditions
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