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Stephane Laurent is a French historian born in Rueil-Malmaison, near Paris (France), in 1966. He is professor of art history at the Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne since 1999, where he directs the specialty in Art and Industry (design, fashion and decorative arts). He also taught at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, at the University of Berkeley and in Middle East universities.

Biography

He graduated in design from the Ecole Boulle (1987) and studied art and design at the École normale supérieure de Cachan (1988-1993), where he earned a MFA in design (1990), got a Higher teaching certificate in art (Agrégation, 1991) and obtained a Master Phil. in History of Architecture (1992), before completing a PhD in Art History (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1996) and being certified Research director (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2006). He also passed successfully the curatorship competitive examination from the Institut national du patrimoine (2006) but finally declined the position. He accomplished his national service in Congo DRC, where he worked in a French cultural center (1989-1990).

His first publications dealt with the history of the design education in France: L'Art Utile (1998), L'Ecole Boulle (1998) and Les Arts appliqués en France (1999), Histoire de l'école nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, 1766-1941 (2004, co-ed. with Thierry Chabanne). He extended his interest to the fields of design and decorative arts through survey books: Caractéristiques des styles (1998), Chronologie du design (1999), Le Musée des arts décoratifs (2006, co-ed. with Françoise de Boisgibault). From 2005, his research orientated toward the cross-cultural studies: Figures de l'ornement (2005), Le Rayonnement de Gustave Courbet (2007), L'unité de l'art, les peintres et le décoratif (Research Director dissertation, 2006). He also published a biography on the French existentialist painter Bernard Buffet (Bernard Buffet, le peintre crucifié, 2000).

He writes many articles for different art magazines: La Gazette de l'hôtel Drouot, L'Estampille-l'Objet d'art, Connaissance des arts, La Revue du design, Creative-I. He is the author of the design entries for the Encyclopaedia Universalis and published many articles in symposia records and exhibitions catalogs including Raoul Dufy at the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (Paris, 2008), Philippe Starck at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, 2003) and Art Déco at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2003).

He was visiting professor in several universities around the world: CASVA/National Gallery of Art (Washington DC, USA, 2005), Japan Foundation/University of Tokyo (2007), Center for Chinese Studies/Republic of China (2008), University of Campinas (Sao Paulo state, Brazil, 2009).

He is expert in art and design for the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.

Contribution

His international fellowships allowed him to develop a cross-cultural approach on ornament, design, architecture and painting. He pioneered the academic studies and teaching in Design history in France, where he was the first scholar to be appointed on a Design history position. His publications cover the history of design and decorative arts through complete surveys and critical academic works. Each book tends to discuss original issues: Les Arts appliqués en France stresses a new interpretation on the history of decorative arts in France from the Revival to the Art Nouveau and to the Art Deco; in his biography on Bernard Buffet, he parses the destiny of a successful figurative painter (particularly in Japan) who faced the development of the contemporary art during the second half of the 20th century France. His book on Gustave Courbet emphasises the contribution of a charismatic realist painter to the development of modern art movements in countries like Finland, Russia, Germany or Brazil. In his studies on the vine-scroll, he shows the journey of this ornament along the Silk road and analyzes the mechanisms of its reception in different cultural contexts. He extended this analysis to contemporary african and indigenous design. In his works on the concept of Unity of Art, he demonstrates the influence of the decorative arts on the modern art through the output of ceramics (Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso), paper(Pierre Bonnard's folding screens, impressionists' fan screens), textile (Aristide Maillol, Raoul Dufy), murals (Henri Matisse, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger) or stage and costume design (Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso. In recent articles, he voices concerns about the situation in France of a culture of design or an effective and long-run strategy for the French industry .

Bibliography

• Robert Ducher (new issue by Jean-François Boisset and Stéphane Laurent) Caractéristique des styles, Paris, Flammarion, 1998, 223p.
• L'École Boulle, Woippy, Éditions Gérard Klopp, 292 p.ISBN-13: 978-2911992070
• L'Art utile. Les écoles d'arts appliqués en France (1851-1940), Paris, L'Harmattan, 288 p.ISBN-13: 978-2738467508
• Chronologie du design, Paris, Flammarion, coll. "Tout l'Art", 240 p.ISBN-13: 978-2081219182
• Les arts appliqués en France (1851-1940), genèse d'un enseignement, Paris, Editions du Comité des Travaux Scientifiques et Historiques, 1999, 684 p.ISBN-13: 978-2735504176
• Bernard Buffet, le peintre crucifié, Paris, Michalon, 2000, 392 p.ISBN : 2-84186-139-2
• Histoire de l’Ecole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (1766-1941) (Co-ed. with Thierry Chabanne), 228 p.
• Figures de l’ornement, Paris, Massin, 2005, 205 p.ISBN-13: 978-2707205056
• Le Musée des arts décoratifs, une étonnante grammaire des styles du Moyen Age à nos jours, Dijon, Editions Faton. coll. Dossier de l’art, n° 133, September 2006, 104 p. (Co-ed. with Françoise Boisgibault).ISSN : 1161-3122
• Le Rayonnement de Gustave Courbet, un fondateur du réalisme en Europe et en Amérique, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2007, 234 p.ISBN-13: 978-2296037830
• Between Inventiveness and Refinement: An History of Design in France, London/Chicago, Reaktion Books (forthcoming).

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