Jean Louis Schefer (7 December 1938 – 7 June 2022)
Jean-Louis Schefer, les images de sa vie
was a French writer, philosopher, art critic, and theoretician of cinema and image.
Career
Born in Paris
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, France
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, a graduate of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
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on ''Les écritures figuratives, a problème de grammaire égyptienne'' (under the guidance of Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 25 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popu ...
and Algirdas Julien Greimas
Algirdas Julien Greimas (; born ; 9 March 1917 – 27 February 1992) was a Lithuanian literary scientist who wrote most of his body of work in French while living in France. Greimas is known among other things for the Semiotic square, Greimas S ...
), Schefer worked in Milan
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from 1965 to 1966, in the preparation of a dictionary, then in Venice
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from 1967 to 1968. In Italy he presented works of Gianfranco Pardi, Titina Maselli, , Gianni Colombo and others. From 1970 to 1981 he taught in Paris.
He collaborated with the magazines ''Tel Quel
''Tel Quel'' (translated into English as, variously: "as is," "as such," or "unchanged") was a French avant-garde literary magazine published between 1960 and 1982.
History and profile
''Tel Quel'' was founded in 1960 in Paris by Philippe Sol ...
, ''Communications, ''Information sur les sciences sociales'', ''Littérature'', ''Critique'', and '' Cahiers du Cinéma''.
Bibliography
*1969: ''Scénographie d’un tableau'', Éditions du Seuil
Éditions du Seuil (), also known as Le Seuil, is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil'' (th ...
, ''Tel Quel''
*1975: ''L’Invention du corps chrétien'', Éditions Galilée
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*1980: L’Homme ordinaire du cinéma, ''Cahiers du cinéma''/Éditions Gallimard
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Founded by G ...
*1985: ''Origine du crime'', Café-Climat
*1987: Gilles Aillaud,
*1988: '', groupe Émile Dubois'', in collaboration with Laurence Louppe and , éditions Dis Voir, .
*1989: ''8, rue Juiverie, photographs by '', CompAct
*1992: ''De la peinture - De Pictura (1435)'' by Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (; 14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, Catholic priest, priest, linguistics, linguist, philosopher, and cryptography, cryptographer; he epitomised the natu ...
, preface, translation from Latin and notes by Jean-Louis Schefer, Macula Dédale
*1995: ''La Lumière et la Table'', Maeght éditeur
*1995: ''Question de style'', L’Harmattan
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*1995: ''The Enigmatic Body'', Cambridge University Press
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*1997: ''Du monde et du mouvement des images'', Cahiers du cinéma
*1998: ''Main courante'',
*1998: ''Figures peintes'', P.O.L, (Prix France Culture The Prix France Culture is a former literary award created in 1979 by the radio station France Culture.
In 2006, it was renamed Prix France Culture/Télérama, and its name was used from 2007 replacing the "Prix Arlequin", cinematographic prize aw ...
, 1999)
*1998: ''Cinématographies'', P.O.L
*1998: ''Choses écrites'', P.O.L
*1998: ''Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; ; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, an ...
, la dernière hypothèse'', Maeght éditeur
*1999: ''Main courante 2'', P.O.L
*1999: ''Lumière du Corrège'', P.O.L
*1999: ''Questions d'art paléolithique'', P.O.L
*1999: ''Paolo Ucello
Paolo Uccello ( , ; 1397 – 10 December 1475), born Paolo di Dono, was an Italian Renaissance painter and mathematician from Florence who was notable for his pioneering work on visual Perspective (graphical), perspective in art. In his book ''Liv ...
, le Déluge'', P.O.L
*1999: ''Sommeil du Greco'', P.O.L
*1999: ''Images mobiles'', P.O.L
*2001: ''Main courante 3'', P.O.L
*2002: ''Polyxène et la vierge à la robe rouge'', P.O.L
*2002: ''Chardin'', P.O.L
*2004: ''Une maison de peinture'', ed. Enigmatic
*2005: ''Figures de différents caractères'', P.O.L
*2007: ''L’Hostie profanée - histoire d’une fiction théologique'', P.O.L,
*2009: ''La Cause des portraits'', P.O.L
*2010: ''De quel tremblement de terre...'', P.O.L
*2011: ''Le Temps dont je suis l'hypothèse'', P.O.L
*2013: ''Monsieur Teste à l'école'', P.O.L
*2016: ''Squelettes et autres fantaisies'', P.O.L
References
External links
Jean-Louis Schefer
on ''Libération
(), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968 in France, May 1968. Initially positioned on the far left of Fr ...
'' (5 October 1995)
Jean-Louis Schefer La Transsubstantiation 1/2
on YouTube
Jean-Louis Schefer
on the site of Éditions P.O.L
The Enigmatic Body: Essays on the Arts
An Enigmatic Text: Schefer's Quest upon a Thing Unknown
on VACARME (February 2014)
Jean-Louis Schefer
on France Culture
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Stations
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*France Inter — Radio France's "generalist ...
''Rencontre avec Jean-Louis Schefer''
on M.E.L (7 December 2016)
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1938 births
2022 deaths
20th-century French essayists
21st-century French essayists
French art critics
Prix France Culture winners
Writers from Paris