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Bois is Clarkson Chair in Architecture
Yves-Alain Bois, an historian, theorist and critic of modern art who, in the mid 1990s, revived the polemic about formalism in art, is in residence in the UB School of Architecture and Planning this spring as the 2010 Clarkson Chair in Architecture.
He will present the 2010 Clarkson Lecture in Architecture at 5:30 p.m. April 7 in 301 Crosby Hall, South Campus.
The lecture will be free and is open to the public.
A recognized expert on a range of canonical artists, including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Ryman, Ed Ruscha and Richard Serra, Bois has curated many exhibitions to international acclaim.
The recipient of master’s and doctoral degrees from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes under the tutelage of French structuralist Roland Barthes and art historian Hubert Damisch, Bois began his career in 1977 at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris
Since 2005, he has been professor of art history in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, a position he assumed after several years as Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor in Modern Art at Harvard University, where he chaired the Department of History of Art and Architecture.
Bois is the author of numerous essays for exhibition catalogues and journals, and several highly regarded and much-translated books, among them “Matisse and Picasso” (1998), for which he received the Alfred H. Barr Award; “Painting as Model,” a collection of essays published by MIT Press in 1990; and “Art Since 1900” with Benjamin Buchloh, Hal Foster and Rosalind Krauss, published in 2004 by Thames & Hudson.
Bois currently is working on the modern history of axonometric projection, a type of orthographic projection used to create a pictorial drawing of an object in which the object is rotated along one or more of its axes relative to the plane of projection.
The Clarkson Chair in Architecture is an endowed visiting position that is awarded annually to a distinguished scholar or professional. The award is in recognition of excellence in the pursuit of scholarship and professional achievement within the discipline and is made possible by the generous support of Will and Nan Clarkson.
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