biography
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| lived:
| (1906–97)
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| biography:
| Writer and art critic, born in Arras, S France. He became president of the Committee of National Museums, into which he had led a widescale inquiry (1933–4), and helped in protecting works of art while working in the resistance. From 1950 he taught at the Collége de France (1950), where he later held the chair in Psychologie des Arts Plastiques. He collaborated on various art reviews, and his many publications included the Histoire de l'Art contemporain (1935) and the famous Dialogue avec le Visible (1955). He was also a pioneer producer of films about art, including Rubens, which won a prize at the Venice Film Festival, the city for which he would later preside over the Rescue Commission for UNESCO. Awards include Grand Officer de la Légion d'Honneur and Grand Croix du Mérite National. |
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