Jean-Marie Touratier (1943 – 1 February 2021) was a French writer, author, and artistic director.
Biography
Touratier earned an
agrégation
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in modern literature and subsequently became the director of the
Fonds régional d'art contemporain A Fonds régional d'art contemporain (Frac) is a public regional collection of contemporary art set in one of the metropolitan or overseas regions of France. There are currently 23 Fracs across the country, organised into a national network called P ...
in
Toulouse
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and arranged multiple art exhibitions. He then worked as a cultural advisor to the of Paris, serving as an academic delegate for arts and culture. In addition to his career as an artistic director, he wrote a number of books about different works of art.
Jean-Marie Touratier died in
Paris
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on 1 February 2021 at the age of 77 from COVID-19.
Works
*''T.V. Essai sur la représentation et la communication'' (1978)
*''Farce'' (1979)
*''Le Stéréotype. Et comment s'en servir'' (1979)
*''Autoportraits avec ruines'' (1980)
*''Le Mal de Seine'' (1980)
*''Au bord des fleuves de Babylone'' (1982)
*''Vie et légende du captain Sarkis'' (1986)
*''Manuel pratique d'art contemporain'' (1987)
*''Moi, le dernier des enfants d'Occident & autres textes'' (1991)
*''Bois rouge'' (1993)
*''Le Caravage. Fragments d'une vie violente'' (1997)
*''L’œuvre ultime. Giovanni Cosma'' (1999)
*''La Belle Déception du regard. Réflexions sur l’art contemporain'' (2001)
*''Martha se tait'' (2003)
*''Déjà la nuit. Claude Monet'' (2005)
*''La Cicatrice'' (2007)
*''Être humain, tome I, Carl Th. Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman'' (2009)
*''Être humain, tome II, Yasujiro Ozu, Andreï Tarkovski'' (2009)
*''Géricault, cheval-peintre'' (2012)
*''Pauvre Joconde'' (2013)
*''"Les Venimeux"'' (2015)
*''Mauvais sang'' (2018)
*''Le légendaire de Marcel Duchamp'' (2020)
References
French writers
1943 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in France
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