Gilbert Lascault (25 October 1934 – 19 December 2022) was a French novelist, essayist, and art critic.

Biography

Lascault was born in

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on 25 October 1934. Agrégé of philosophy in 1960, Gilbert Lascault began writing his thesis, « Le monstre dans l’art occidental » ("The monster in Western art"), an essay of aesthetics inaugurating his writings to come.Article de Évelyne Toussaint
on the site ''Archives de la critique d'art''. He discovered contemporary art by meeting

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. An engraver and calligrapher, Gilbert Lascault taught aesthetics and the philosophy of art at the

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(from 1988) then at the Sorbonne (since the second half of the 1990s), "proposing" seminars of uncertainty "to students and researchers in philosophy, art history and plastic arts". A specialist in

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, he has published several books on this subject. He has written in numerous magazines: ''Traverses'', ', ''L’Art Vivant'', ''Artstudio'', ''XXe'', Beaux Arts Magazine'', ''La Revue d’esthétique'' For many years, he was one of the "pillars", of the program on France Culture, and has long participated in ''Panorama'' and . In 1995, he was the guest of honor of the

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. Lascault participated, as author, in the realization of a large number of artist's books with, in particular,

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, Brigitte Tartière, , and . Lascault wrote extensively on the works of artists such as

, Jean Tinguely,

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, Bang Hai Ja.… From 4 May 2005, he was at the chair of Teratoscopy & Dinography. In 2014, the of Issoudun devoted a large retrospective exhibition « Les chambres hantées de Gilbert Lascault ». Lascault died on 19 December 2022, at the age of 88.

Publications

* 1963: ''Le Monstre dans l'art occidental'', * 1969: ''Esthétique et psychanalyse'', in ''La Psychanalyse'', collectif, éd.: S.G.P.P.; series "Le point de la question" * 1975: ''Un monde miné'', * 1976: ''Enfances choisies'', Christian Bourgois * 1976: With Gianfranco Baruchello, ''Alphabet d'Éros'', Paris, Ed. Galilée * 1977: ''Figurées, défigurées : petit vocabulaire de la féminité représentée'', Union générale d’édition (UGE), series , Paris * 1977: ''Un îlot tempéré'', Christian Bourgois * 1979: ''Écrits timides sur le visible'', UGE, 10/18, Paris * 1979: ''Voyage d'automne et d'hiver'', Christian Bourgois * 1981: ''La destinée de Jean Simon Castor'', Christian Bourgois * 1981: ''Boucles et nœuds'', * 1982: ''Alexandre Bonnier - Autour d'images et d'écrits'', Editions Shakespeare International * 1982: ''Un herbier pour '' * 1983: ''Encyclopédie abrégée de l'empire vert'',

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* 1983: ''Marmottes à l'imparfait'' (illustrations by Jan Voss), Ryōan-ji * 1983: ''Arrondissements'' (illustrations by Pierre Alechinsky ), Repères * 1984: ''Coutume des Vents'', illustrations by , éd. Fata Morgana, Montpellier * 1984: ''Malaval'', Art Press/

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* 1985: ''Faire et défaire'', éd. Fata Morgana, Montpellier * 1985: ''Éloges à Geneviève'', novel, Balland * 1985: ''Francis Limérat and Jean-Pierre Vielfaure - Les arpenteurs de l'utopie, parcours'', Éditions du C.A.C. Pablo-Neruda, Corbeil-Esonnes * 1986: ''La Grande Forêt Alquin'', illustrations by Nicolas Alquin, éd. Le Salon d’Art, Brussels * 1986: ''Les amours d'Arthur-toujours-là et de Monica-Belle-de-Givre'', illustrations by Petra Werlé, Baby Lone, Strasbourg * 1986: ''Consanguins d'Omènes,'' illustrations by Janko Stanovnik, éd. Tropismes * 1987: ''Jeux d’échecs – Jeu de guerres'', illustrations by Nicolas Alquin, éd. L’Échoppe, Caen * 1987: ''420 minutes dans la cité des ombres'', éd. Ramsay, Caen * 1989: ''Le petit chaperon rouge, partout'', * 1992: ''Jour de désert'', illustrations by Nicolas Alquin, éd. L’Échoppe … * 2014: ''Les Chambres hantées'', Tarabuste éditions

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Gilbert Lascault
on Babelio
''"Les chambres hantées" de Gilbert Lascault au musée Saint-Roch d'Issoudun''

on ''

Le Monde ''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...

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''Gilbert Lascault lit "Histoires en forme de trèfle" (1990)''
on YouTube
Article by Évelyne Toussaint
on the site ''Archives de la critique d'art''

on France Culture
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