A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator

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  • Author : Michel Laclotte
  • Release Date : 2011-09-20
  • Publisher : WW Norton
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 382
  • ISBN 13 : 0789260077
  • File Size : 31,31 MB
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A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator by Michel Laclotte PDF Summary

Book Description: An art world insider provides a witty and penetrating account of fifty years at the center of international culture. Art historian, curator, and museum director Michel Laclotte has been at the forefront of French cultural life over the past half century. This informal autobiography sheds light on his brilliant career with warmth and directness. Highlights include twenty years as chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Musée du Louvre, heading the team that created the Musée dOrsay, and taking the reins of the Louvre to lead the effort that culminated in the museums transformation into the ?Grand Louvre,” one of the worlds preeminent cultural attractions. Raising the curtain on fifty years of Western art scholarship, intrigue, and achievement, Laclotte introduces an extraordinary cast of characters who set Frances cultural direction in the postwar period from Charles de Gaulle and André Malraux in the 1950s to François Mitterand in the 1980s and 1990s. His story overlaps with virtually every major scholarly figure in French art history of the last half-century, as well as Laclottes mentors and colleagues throughout and beyond Europe, from Roberto Longhi and Anthony Blunt to Sir John Pope-Hennessy and Millard Meiss. An incomparable testament to a period of seismic change in the museum world, this volume will be essential reading for art world afficianados and all students of art and modern culture.

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An art world insider provides a witty and penetrating account of fifty years at the center of international culture. Art historian, curator, and museum director

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