Rereading Louis Hautecœur

Tricia Meehan and Patrice Gourbin (eds.), Élise Guillerm (scientific coordination), Relire Louis Hautecœur, Rouen, ATE / Éditions Point de vues, 2019, 175 p.

Louis Hautecœur (1884-1973) devoted his life to art and architecture, past and present. As an agent of the State, he was involved in artistic and architectural debates and institutions, and his career illustrates the great upheavals of the 20th century.

Versatile and polygraphic, he successively or simultaneously exercised several professions: professor of art and architecture history (École du Louvre, École des beaux-arts), architectural historian (History of classical architecture in France in seven volumes), exhibition curator (international exhibitions, Venice biennials), curator (Musée du Luxembourg, inspiration for the Musée National d'Art Moderne) and reforming administrator (Direction des Beaux-Arts in Egypt and France).

This book explores some of the lesser-known aspects of his political influence and cultural diplomacy, his museum and museography, his administration, and his conception of a timeless classicism, placing them in their artistic, intellectual and political context.

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