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Jean Clair () is the ''nom de plume'' (pen name) of Gérard Régnier (born 20 October 1940 in Paris, France). Clair is an essayist, a polemicist,〔Éric Biétry-Rivierre, « (Jean Clair, un “atrabilaire” sous la Coupole ) » (), Le Figaro, May 23, 2008. (French )〕 an art historian, an art conservator, and a member of the Académie française since May, 2008.〔Éric Biétry-Riviérre, (« Jean Clair, un “atrabilaire” sous la Coupole » ), ''Le Figaro'', May 23, 2008〕〔Astrid de Larminat, « (Jean Clair, le réactionnaire assumé ) » (), Le Figaro, encart « Culture », November 4, 2013, page 48.〕 He was, for many years, the director of the Picasso Museum in Paris. Among the milestones of his long and productive career is a comprehensive catalog of the works of Balthus. He was also the director of the Venice Biennale in 1995.〔Biographical Note Jean Clair in Who’s Who in France〕 ==Biography== His father was a farmer with socialist ideas and his mother a devout catholic. Jean Clair was born in the sixth arrondissement of Paris. He was a student at two secondary schools, the lycée Jacques-Decour and the lycée Carnot, before embarking on a course of post-baccalaureat preparation, the so-called khâgne, at the prestigious lycée Henri-IV in Paris.〔 Then he pursued a doctorate degree in literature and sciences at the Sorbonne, specialising in philosophy and the history of art. There he was a student of the art historian, André Chastel, and the philosopher, Jean Grenier.〔〔Académie française– Les immortels ((French Academy – the Immortals) Jean CLAIR )〕 Later, he secured a doctorate in art at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University with scholarship support from the financier Arthur Sachs.〔 During his studies he spends a year in the Netherlands and another year in Belgium.〔 During the Algerian war, for a time, he was involved with the Union of Communist Students (Union des étudiants communistes de France - UEC).〔 Jean Clair enters the literary world and became the art editor of The “La Nouvelle Revue française” (New French Review), led by the well-known Marcel Arland, Georges and Jacques Reda Lambrichs. His start as a writer was marked by the publishing in this magazine of a journal-novel under the pseudonym Clair at 22, in 1962. In this journal he expresses the nostalgia of his childhood and adolescence on a farm, in the countryside, which his parents left taking him with them to live in the city. For his first job, he was assigned to the Orangerie Museum, but found it "so dusty , so bourgeois".〔 Passing the second competitive examination for the position of curator of the Museums of France in 1966 at age 26, he is assistant curator until 1969, then curator at the National Museum of Modern Art for ten years, and then curator of the section (“cabinet”) of graphic art of Centre Pompidou between 1980 and 1989. He is appointed General National (French) Heritage “conservateur” (preserver) in 1989. He was the Director of the Picasso Museum, Paris, France until 2005.〔 He also curated many national exhibitions such as "Duchamp" (1977), "Les Réalismes"/The various form of realism) (1980), "Vienne/Vienna" (1986), " L'âme au corps"/The soul and the body (1993 ), "Balthus ","Szafran,"," Mélancolie/Melancholy "(2005)," Crime et Châtiment"/Crime and Punishment (2010) and directed the Venice Biennale for its Centennial in 1995. Jean Clair was the editor of the "Les Chroniques de l'art vivant" (The Chronicles of living art) that he directed from 1969 to 1975. This magazine that was founded by Aimé Maeght and saw the day before Art Press (1972). Jean Clair wrote in this magazine mainly on the new generation of artists such as Buren, Boltanski, Sarkis, Le Gac, Viallat. This magazine was a privileged place of observation to reflect on the changes that shook the world of art in all areas, the visual arts, as well as in music, film and dance. In several works, he denounced the present turn of contemporary art that has broken with the European artistic tradition. Jean Clair was a professor of art history at the École du Louvre between 1977 and 1980, and founded the "Cahiers du musée d'Art moderne" a series of publications of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, France, that ran from 1978 to 1986. He regularly participates in debates on contemporary art and the dissemination of art. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean Clair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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