Yve-Alain Bois (born April 16, 1952) is a professor emeritus of Art History at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Education Bois received an M.A. from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1973 for his work on El Lissitzky's typography, and a Ph.D. from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1977 for his work on Lissitzky's and Malevich's conceptions of space. Both of his degrees were supervised under Roland Barthes.
Career
Academic Bois is a professor emeritus at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in the chair inaugurated by Erwin Panofsky, and at the European Graduate School. From 1991 to 2005, he served on the faculty at Harvard University as Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor in Modern Art, after teaching at Johns Hopkins University and at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Bois was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2016.
Writing Bois has written books and articles on artists of European modernism. He is an editor of the journal October.
Articles "Whose Formalism?" Art Bulletin, Mar. 1996 European Graduate School
References
External links Bois faculty page at European Graduate School Clark interativa. Interview for Folha de Sao Paulo, Caderno Mais!, 2006 by Jane de Almeida. MIT Press: list of books and articles by Bois All About Yve: An Interview with Yve-Alain Bois (1995) "From Art to Barthes and Back Again", The Harvard Crimson, September 19, 1991