Accounts, stories, book extracts photos and images took us back to the beginning of the 20th century, to the village and to the house that became the home of so many artists.
Carole Boulbès
is an art critic and professor of history and theory of art at the
École Nationale Superieudes Arts at Nancy. Carole has published many
articles on modern and contemporary art with a particular interest in
Francis Picabias painting and writing.Lecture: Abstract painting and the readymade.
Dr. Kieran Lyons
is a researcher at Transtechnology Research at the University of
Plymouth UK. He has written on Marcel Duchamp for Leonardo Magazine,
Technoetic Arts and the Tate Gallery's online Research bulletin Tate
Papers. Kieran is also an artist, now specialising in drawing. He ran
the Fine Art Department at the University of Wales, Newport until 2011.Lecture: the Jura-Paris road and the impact on French militarism on Marcel Duchamp.
Paul B. Franklin
has published widely on Marcel Duchamp, and is editor in chief of
Étant donné Marcel Duchamp, a scholarly journal devoted to the artist's
life and work. He also works closely with Duchamp's heirs managing his
estate.Lecture: Patrick Bailly-Cowell's audio interview with Marcel Duchamp and its place within Duchamp studies.
Dorota Perszko
art historian, an aspiring critic. A graduate of Art History, Adam
Mickiewicz University in Poznan, conducts research in the field of
modern and contemporary art and its methodological contexts.Lecture: The Dada influence in Poland.
Joseph Romand
was born 60 years ago into a peasant family from Étival; he learned how to read, to write and to think between the communal school and the village local church. He holds a history of art licence from the University of Charles de Gaules in Lille.
Lecture: The context of Étival around 1912.
Philippe Bonnet
Editor and chief editor of Les Soirées de Paris, Philippe Bonnet is a professional journalist. He worked with the daily newspaper Liberation
and then for the financial press. It is for his initiatives that Les
soirées de Paris, famously managed by Guillaume Apollinaire between 1912
and 1914, are being published again on the web since 2010.Lecture: "Les Soirées de Paris in the midle" of a key year for Apollinaire.
Pierre Boisard
Pierre Boisard is a sociologist, researcher at CNRS (IDHE, ENS,
Cachan). His main topics are work, employment and social cohesion. He
has published several books including Camembert a National Myth,
Berkeley, University Press of California.
