Yve-Alain Bois

Yve-Alain Bois, who was born on April 16, 1952, in Constantine, Algeria, is a professor of art and film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

Education

Bois received an M.A. from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris for work on El Lissitzky's typography, and a Ph.D. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales for his work on Lissitzky's and Malevich's conceptions of space.

Career

Academic career

Bois is a professor at the European Graduate School and at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in the chair inaugurated by Erwin Panofsky. Previously, he served on the faculty at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Writing

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

Articles

• "Whose Formalism?" Art Bulletin, Mar. 1996 European Graduate School
• Review of Tony Smith retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Artforum, Nov. 1998
• Review of "Supports/Surfaces" exhibition at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Artforum, Dec. 1998
• Bois and Linda Nochlin discuss the Matisse and Picasso exhibition, Artforum, Feb. 1999
• Review of Barnett Newman retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Artforum, Mar. 2002
• "The Mourning After," panel discussion on painting, Artforum, Mar. 2003
• On Fred Sandback, Artforum, Oct. 2003

External links

• Bois faculty page at European Graduate School
• Interview with Bois for Folha de Sao Paulo, Caderno Mais!, 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 Harvard Crimson, September 19, 1991