Herve Vanel
Associate Professor
- Department: Art History and Fine Arts
- Office:C-504
Professor Vanel specializes in mid-twentieth century art and has published on a diverse range of artists and topics, including the work of Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Roy Lichtenstein and the experimental practice of John Cage. He is the author of Le Parti Commoniste: Roy Lichtenstein et l鈥檃rt pop (ed. Carr茅, 2013) and Triple Entendre: Furniture Music, Muzak, Muzak-Plus (University of Illinois Press, 2013) and edited the exhibition catalog Warhol Unlimited, Mus茅e d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2015-2016, which he co-curated. Vanel is particularly interested in interdisciplinary methodologies, and expects to motivate students in developing a form of rigorous creative and critical understanding of contemporary art and its history.
Education/Degrees
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Doctorat / PhD, Universite de Paris I - Pantheon Sorbonne.
News
Recent Publications:
鈥淔auteur de trouble: Raymond Hains et la Biennale de Venise鈥� in Raymond Hains: Venice, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris / Berlin, 2018. [French/English]
鈥淐ybernetic Bordello (Nicolas Sch枚ffer鈥檚 Aesthetic Hygiene),鈥� in France and the Visual Arts since 1945: Remapping European Postwar and Contemporary Art, EPCAF (European Postwar and Contemporary Art Forum), Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Epcaf book series, AC Books., 2018.听
鈥淟鈥檌ntranaute (Notes on James Turrell),鈥� Exhibition catalogue, James Turrell: It Becomes Your Experience, Spring 2018, Mus茅e d'Art de Nantes. [French/English]
鈥淭his is Fear of Death,鈥� in Francis Bacon/Bruce Nauman. Face 脿 face, (C茅cile Debray, ed.) exhibition catalogue, Mus茅e Fabre, Montpellier, July 1st-November 5, 2017, Suresnes, Couleurs contemporaines, Bernard Chauveau editions. [French/English]
鈥淪peaking in Tongues (Selvaging Rauschenberg)鈥� in Robert Rauschenberg: Salvage, 19 October 2016 -14 January 2017, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, p. 4-16 (French); p. 18-30 [French/English].
鈥淢auvais Genre鈥� in Warhol Unlimited, exhibition Catalogue, Mus茅e d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, October 2nd 2015 - February 7th 2016. [French]
Herv茅 Vanel is the co-curator of the "Warhol Unlimited" exhibition at the October 2nd 2015 - February 7th 2016 at the Mus茅e d鈥橝rt moderne de la Ville de Paris and the director of exhibition catalog.
Publications
- Warhol Unlimited, ed. Paris Mus茅es, 2015.
- Triple Entendre - Furniture Music, Muzak, Muzak-Plus, The University of Illinois Press, 2014.
- Le Parti Commoniste 鈥� Roy Lichtenstein et l鈥檃rt pop, editions Carr茅, Paris, 2013. [galley proof]
- 鈥淒erni猫re Gerbe: De Kooning鈥檚 Last Gleanings鈥� in Final Works, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Spring 2013.
- 鈥淰isual Muzak and the Regulation of the Senses: Notes on Nicolas Sch枚ffer,鈥� in Audio 鈥� Visual - On Visual Music and Related Media, Cornelia Lund, Holger Lund (eds.) Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart, p. 58-75, July 2009. [galley proof]
- 鈥淟a philosophie d鈥橝ndy Warhol de a 脿 a,鈥� in Les 茅crits d'artistes depuis 1940, edited by Fran莽oise Levaillant, CNRS, INHA and Paris 1 鈥� Panth茅on Sorbonne co-茅dition, Institut des M茅moires de l鈥橢dition Contemporaine, Paris, November 2004.
Conferences & Lectures
2018, June 5th: 鈥溾�楢 beautiful, incomplete idea鈥�: Around Jasper Johns鈥� Flags鈥� Symposium Art, Life & Politics: American Printmaking from the 1960s to Today, Terra Foundation for American Art, Paris, June 4-5 2018.
2016, March 7th: 鈥淔rancis Bacon: Pertes et Profits,鈥� Mus茅e d'art moderne Andr茅 Malraux, le Havre [Part of the cycle of conferences: L鈥檃rt en Grande-Bretagne : 1750-1970]
2016, January 20th: 鈥淎ndy Warhol Curates Everything from A to B and Back Again,鈥� Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris. Panel including curators Sebastian Gokap, MAMVP), Emma Lavigne, director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz and Florence Ostende, curator, Palais de Tokyo.