News from 2004
NEW MASTER’S ESSAY ABOUT BARBEAU
27/09/2004
Emily Salmon, studying art history at the University of Paris X Nanterre, has successfully supported 16 September 2004 his thesis “Marcel Barbeau Recent Works: 1971-1991.” She worked under the direction of Professor Paul Louis Rinuy. This 125-pages book sheds new light on the production of the artist since 1971, highlighting its poetic dimension, its relation to space and movement, and its relationship to the country and the landscape.
FIRST THESIS ON MARCEL BARBEAU AT THE SORBONNE UNIVERSITY
03/03/2004
Auteur :Max. John
Date : 01/04/1961
Marcel Barbeau dans sa chambre-atelier de la rue Mont Royal, vers 1960. Photo John Max pour Marcel Barbeau.
On 9 March 2004, Ninon Gauthier successfully defended a doctoral thesis at the Paris IV Sorbonne University. She obtained a PhD Graduate in History of Art and Archaeology with “Très honorable”. This is the highest honor in France at this level.
This thesis is entitled “Marcel Barbeau Echoes et métamorphoses Catalogue raisonné des sculptures (1940- 2000) et Catalogue raisonné des peintures (1944-1971).” It documents and analyzes thoroughly the work of this pioneer of abstract expressionism in Canada by placing it in the history of art from the second half of the twentieth century. Ninon Gauthier worked under the direction of Professor Serge Lemoine, an eminent historian of French art, specializing in abstraction.