Marcelin Pleynet
Illustration — Marcelin Pleynet, Venice, 2006 Marcelin Pleynet (born 23 December 1933, in Lyon, France) is a French poet, art critic and essayist. He was Managing Editor of the influential magazine Tel Quel from 1962 to 1982, and co-edited the journal L'Infini (Gallimard) with Philippe Sollers. He was Professor of Aesthetics at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1987 to 1998.
Marcelin Pleynet
- Born
- 1933 · Lyon.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- poet · literary critic · writer
- Fields
- French literature · French poetry
- Honours
- Fénéon Prize for literature
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Marcelin Pleynet, Venice, 2006 Marcelin Pleynet (born 23 December 1933, in Lyon, France) is a French poet, art critic and essayist. He was Managing Editor of the influential magazine Tel Quel from 1962 to 1982, and co-edited the journal L'Infini (Gallimard) with Philippe Sollers. He was Professor of Aesthetics at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1987 to 1998.
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He has published numerous monographs on 20th-century art, notably Situation de l’art moderne: Paris-New York (in association with William Rubin), Henri Matisse, Robert Motherwell: La vérité en peinture, Les Modernes et la tradition, Les États-Units de la peinture and L’art abstrait. He has also published books of poetry and the novel Prise d’otage, and an edition of Giorgione et les deux Vénus.
• Le savoir-vivre, Gallimard, 2006 • Alechinsky le pinceau voyageur, Gallimard, 2002 • Rothko et la France, L'épure Eds, 1999 • Rimbaud en son temps, Gallimard, 2005 • Judit Reigl, L'insolite-Adam Biro, 2001 • Les voyageurs de l'an 2000, Gallimard, 2000 • Poésie et "révolution", la révolution du style, Pleins Feux Eds, 2000 • Chardin - Le sentiment et l'esprit du temps, L'épure Eds, 1999 • Rothko et la France, L'épure Eds, 1999 • Notes sur le motif suivi de La Dogana, Dumerchez Naoum, 1998 • Lautréamont, Seuil, 1998 • L'homme habite poétiquement, Actes Sud, 1998 • Une saison, Dumerchez Naoum, 1996 • Henri Matisse, Gallimard, 1993 • Les modernes et la tradition, Gallimard, 1990 • L'Art abstrait, tome 5 (avec Michel Ragon), Adrien Maeght, 1988 • New-York Series, les sculptures en cire de Félix Rozen, galerie Gary, Paris, 1979/88 • Les Etats-Unis de la peinture, Seuil, 1986 • Fenêtre sur le Japon, exhibition of Félix Rozen, Central color Paris, 1986 • La place de Félix Rozen dans l'art contemporain (Situation pièce, Centre d'Action Culturelle, Saint Brieux, text read by the author), 1984 • Painting and System, Univ of Chicago, 1984 • Modernism-Modernity and the Philosophy of History, NSCAD Univ Press, 1983/2004
Poetry
Poetry
• Le Pontos, Gallimard, 2002 • Premières poésies, Cadex, 1988 • Fragments du choeur - vers et proses, Denoël, 1984 • Le propre du temps, Gallimard, 1995 • Stanze, Seuil, 1973
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• Prise d'otage, Gallimard 1986 • La vie à deux ou à trois, Gallimard, 1992
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- 1.Philippe Forest, Histoire de Tel Quel, Seuil, , 1995.
- 2.Revue L'Infini.
- 3.Voir sur pileface.com.
- 4.Film accessible depuis le site de Marcelin Pleynet.
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- 10.Voir sur philippesollers.net.
- 11.Texte repris sur le site des Editions Marciana
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- 13.Texte repris sur le site d'Artpress.
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