Gaëtan Picon

Gaëtan Picon (19 September 1915 – 6 August 1976) was a French author: essayist, art and literature critic, and art and literature historian.^[1][2][3] He was director of the Mercure de France and Director-General of Arts and Letters under André Malraux. He wrote an entry for the Encyclopaedia Universalis on Swiss publisher Albert Skira.^[4]

Selected bibliography

• Balzac: Balzac par lui-même. (1956). Microcosme ecrivains de toujou. Editions du Seui, Paris. 191 pp.
• Ingres: Biographical and Critical Study (1967) The Taste of Our Time, Vol. 47. Editions d'Art Albert Skira, Geneva 131 pp.
• The Work of Jean Dubuffet (1973). Albert Skira, Geneva. 233 pp.
• Surrealists and Surrealism 1919-1939 (1977). Skira/Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 231 pp.
• Birth Of Modern Painting (1978). Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 135 pp.
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1980). Published by Skira/Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York. 151 pp.

References

1. Centre Georges Pompidou.; Musée national d'art moderne (France) (1979), L'oeil double de Gaëtan Picon : [exposition], Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, 18 avril-18 juin 1979. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 108 pp.
2. Guy Martinière (2007), Gaëtan Picon: de l'aventure littéraire à l'action culturelle. Indes savantes, Paris, 169 pp.
3. Agnes Callu (2011), Gaëtan Picon (1915-1976) esthétique et culture. Champion; Geneva/Paris 714 pp.
4. Gaëtan Picon. Skira Albert (1904-1973). Encyclopaedia Universalis https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/albert-skira/(Accessed March 21, 2019)

External links

Worldcat Identities: Gaëtan Picon, Overview http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50019731/