Yve-Alain Bois

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Yve-Alain Bois
Born (1952-04-16) April 16, 1952 (age 72)
Alma mater Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Scientific career
Fields Art history
Institutions Institute for Advanced Study
Notable students Scott Rothkopf

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

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Education

Bois received an M.A. from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1973 for his work on El Lissitzky's typography, and a Ph.D. from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1977 for his work on Lissitzky's and Malevich's conceptions of space. [1] Both of his degrees were supervised under Roland Barthes.

Career

Academic

Bois is a professor emeritus at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in the chair inaugurated by Erwin Panofsky, [1] and at the European Graduate School. From 1991 to 2005, he served on the faculty at Harvard University as Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor in Modern Art, [2] after teaching at Johns Hopkins University and at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. [1] [3]

Bois was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2016. [4]

Writing

Bois has written books and articles on artists of European modernism. He is an editor of the journal October.

Articles

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References

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