Gilbert Lascault
Gilbert Lascault (born 25 October 1934 in Strasbourg) is a French novelist, essayist, and art critic. Biography. 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. He discovered contemporary art by meeting Henri Michaux and Jean Dubuffet. An engraver and calligrapher, Gilbert Lascault taught aesthetics and the philosophy of art the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense (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 surrealism, he has published several books on this subject. He writes and has written in numerous magazines: "Traverses", "", "L’Art Vivant", "Artstudio", "XXe", Beaux Arts Magazine", "La Revue d’esthétique" For many years, he is 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 Oulipo. Gilbert Lascault participated, as author, in the realization of a large number of artist's books with, in particular, Pierre Alechinsky, Marcel Alocco, , Eliz Barbosa, Cantié, Henri Cueco , , Ghislaine Escande, Nathalie Grall, Françoise Gründ, Philippe Hélénon, Joël Leick, Stanislav Marijanović, Marianne Montchougny, , Gaëlle Pelachaud, Denis Pouppeville, Antonio Seguí, Brigitte Tartière, , and He has also written extensively on the works of artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Jean Tinguely, Pierre Alechinsky, , Vladimir Veličković, Coco Téxèdre, , , Anne and Patrick Poirier, , , Henri Cueco, Christian Boltanski, Leonardo Cremonini, Bang Hai Ja.… Since 4 May 2005, he is at the chair of Teratoscopy & Dinography. In 2014, the of Issoudun devoted a large retrospective exhibition « Les chambres hantées de Gilbert Lascault ».