This fourth volume in the collection " Passage des disciplines " stems from the study day organized by Jessica Desclaux on April 4 2019 as part of the research program " Passage des disciplines : histoire globale du Collège de France, XIXe-XXe siècle ", directed by Pr Antoine Compagnon, with the collaboration of Céline Surprenant, and focusing on the evolution of the subjects taught, as well as those that were not admitted and that form a " Collège virtuel ", from the end of the eighteenth century to the 1960s.
The book looks at how the discipline of art history came into being at the Collège de France, forging a special link with the Musée du Louvre.
Georges Lafenestre, André Michel, Paul Vitry and René Huyghe were initially curators in the Department of Paintings and Drawings and the Department of Medieval, Renaissance and Modern Sculpture, they later taught at the Collège as part of the Aesthetics and History of Art chair, created in 1878 and renamed " History of French Art " (1920-1925), or the municipal chair, financed by the City of Paris, " Psychology of the Plastic Arts " (1951-1976).
By electing several curators to its chairs, does the Collège de France occupy a special place in the cartography of teaching venues for aesthetics and art history ? To what extent do candidates' museum experience influence their appointment ?
Publication : November 20 2020
Book available in digital version, Freemium open access on the OpenEdition Books portal.
ISBN : 978-2-7226-0559-6.
PDF/ePub : 9,99 €.
