Philippe Saunier (born 1972) is a French art historian who is chief curator at the at the Ministry of Culture of France. He was formerly with the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée Picasso in Paris. He is the author with Thea Burns of L'art du pastel (2014) which was translated into English and published by Abbeville Press in 2015 as The art of the pastel.
Career
From 2004 to 2006, Saunier was a curator at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris. From 2006 to 2007, he was personal advisor for archeology and museums in the office of Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, a French Minister of Culture and Communication. From 2007 to 2008, he was a curator at the Musée Picasso in Paris. He was the commissioner of the exhibition Picasso and his Collection and wrote the catalogue for the exhibition with Anne Baldassari which was published by the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia in 2008. Later, he was a curator of paintings and pastels at the Musée d'Orsay .
Saunier is now chief curator at the Bureau de l'inventaire des collections et de la circulation des biens culturels at ministry of culture.
Saunier is the author with Thea Burns of L'art du pastel (2014) which was translated into English and published by Abbeville Press in 2015 as The art of the pastel. The book was described by the publishers as "The only comprehensive history of pastel art".
Selected publications
French
- ë Au nom du nom. àpropos de Ceci n'est pas qu'un tableau û, Lectures, 2015 (record of Bernard Lahire, Ceci n'est pas qu'un tableau. Essai sur l'art, la domination, la magie et le sacré, Paris, coll. ë Laboratoire des sciences sociales û, 2015, 550 p., )
- L'art du pastel. Citadelles et Mazenod, 2014. (With Thea Burns)
- ë LâÂÂexemple anglais (Ruskin, Morris) : extension du domaine de lâÂÂart û, LâÂÂArt social de la Révolution àla Grande Guerre, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2014
- Le voyage. Hachette, 2011. (With Rosa Djaoud)
- ë Ernest Chesneau (1833-1890) û, Dictionnaire critique des historiens de l'art, INHA, 2011
- Degas. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, 2010. (contributor)
- ë LâÂÂethos protestant de Bouguereau û, 48/14, nð30, 2010
- ë Le paysage, horizon de la peinture (1780-1820) û, Voir lâÂÂItalie et mourir, exhibition catalog, musée dâÂÂOrsay, 2009
- ë El pastel en Degas : un material necesario û, Degas, el proceso de la creación, exhibition catalog, Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid, 2008
- ë Préraphaélisme et esthétisme en France : vingt ans dâÂÂeffusion lyrique en France (1880-1900) û, Histoires littéraires, 2007, nð29
- ë Voir Mettray. LâÂÂarchitecture de la colonie û, actes du colloque Eduquer et punir, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2005
- Les couleurs du ciel: vitraux de création au XXe siècle dans les cathédrales de France. Henri Gaud, Moisenay, 2002.
- ë Les préraphaélites anglais : les reproductions de leurs Ã
Âuvres et leur réception au XIXe siècle en France û, Revue de lâÂÂart, 2002-3
- ë Edward Burne-Jones et la France : Madeleine Deslandes, une préraphaélite oubliée û, Revue de lâÂÂart, 1999-1
- Preface of the reissue of the poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, La Maison de Vie, translation by Clémence Couve (1887), éditions Ressouvenances, Coeuvres-et-Valsery, 1999
English
- ë Bourdieu the Heresiarch. When Bourdieu Revisits Edouard Manet û, Books&Ideas.net, 2015
- The art of the pastel. Abbeville Press, London, 2015. (With Thea Burns) (Translated by Elizabeth Heard)
- Picasso & his collection. Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2008. (With Anne Baldassari) ()
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