Agua Azul, Chiapas, Mexico

Serge PAUL

Avignon, France

T: +33466209331

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E-mail: earth @ earthworks.org

Art historian, critic, translator, photographer

International Society for Travel Writing, University of Minnesota

Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature de Voyages, Paris 4-Sorbonne

selected research publications and presentations

forthcoming

- "Michael Heizer et les risques du sublime technologique" in Au-delà du Land Art, edited by Jérôme Glicenstein (conference proceeding, INHA, Paris, Feb. 2011), Marges 14 (Presses de l’Université de Vincennes-Paris 8, Feb.-Mar. 2012)

publications (follow links to order)

- "Sensorium Dei: Observatories of the American West" in The Last Freedom—from the Pioneers of Land Art in the 1960s to Nature in Cyberspace, exhibition catalog (Apr. 15 - Oct. 16) edited by Beate Reifenscheid, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2011) 

- "Irreplaceable Replacement Children: Van Gogh, Dali, and Robert Smithson" in Of Mothers and Death: from Procreation to Creation (Int'l conference proceedings, University of Bordeaux 3, Dec. 2005), editors: Elisabeth Lamothe & Pascale Sardin, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2008. > Book review

- "Nostalgia for the Past/Future: The Two Natures of Land Art" in Nature and Progress edited by Pierre Lagayette (int'l conference proceedings, University of Paris 4-Sorbonne, November 2002) coll. Frontières 12, Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2006

- "Robert Smithson and Apocalyptic Architecture" in Text and Architecture (3rd int'l 'Word & Image' conference proceedings, Paris, June 2003), Interfaces 24, a journal published jointly by The College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., and the University of Paris 7-Diderot; founding editor: Michel Baridon; journal editors: Maurice Geracht, Frédéric Ogée; copy editor: Carole Cambray, 2005

- "Le Land art et le mythe américain de la Frontière: une nostalgie de la conquête" in Ecrire la frontière (int'l conference proceedings, University of Limoges, October 2001), editors: Nathalie Martinière & Sophie Le Ménahèze, Presses Universitaires de Limoges, Oct. 2003

- "'Go moan for man': du désir d'évasion au confinement culturel, le mythe du désert dans l'oeuvre de Robert Smithson" in Désert(s): entre désir et délire, Confluences XXII edited by Corinne Alexandre-Garner & Guillaume Cingal, Centre de Recherches Espaces/Ecritures-Bibliothèque Durrell, University of Paris 10-Nanterre, 2003

- "Reshaping Time: Robert Smithson's Earth Art as a Denial of History" in The Representation of Time in Literature and the Arts (2nd int'l 'Word & Image' conference, Worcester, MA, June 2001), same editors, Interfaces 19/20, vol. I, 2002

lectures and panels

- "Land Art: enjeux culturels et environnementaux", Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon, February 2010

- "Partially Buried Narrative: Robert Smithson and the Scriptural Landscape," 18th 'Narrative' Int'l Conference, University of California at Berkeley, March 2003

- "Robert Smithson en quête de révélation dans le paysage américain," 3rd 'Borders and Crossings' Int'l Conference, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin, July 2002

wikipedia

- Philippe Collage (1944-2007), visual artist and filmmaker, 2011

photography

Art and archeology photographs published in various books and periodicals including  Artforum