Yve-Alain Bois

Bois received an M.A. from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1973 for his work on El Lissitzky's typography, and a Ph.D. from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1977 for his work on Lissitzky's and Malevich's conceptions of space.{{cite web|url=http://www.egs.edu/faculty/yve-alain-bois/biography/ |title=Biography |work=The European Graduate School |access-date=February 25, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220065918/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/yve-alain-bois/biography/ |archive-date=February 20, 2012 }} Both of his degrees were supervised under Roland Barthes.

Bois is a professor emeritus at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in the chair inaugurated by Erwin Panofsky, and at the European Graduate School. From 1991 to 2005, he served on the faculty at Harvard University as Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor in Modern Art,{{Cite web |title=Yve-Alain Bois |url=https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/yve-alain-bois |access-date=2022-09-15 |website=Harvard University, Department of History of Art + Architecture |language=en-US}} after teaching at Johns Hopkins University and at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.{{Cite web |title=Destroy, She Said: Remarks on Yve-Alain Bois' 'An Oblique Autobiography' |url=https://selvajournal.org/article/destroy-she-said/ |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=Selva |language=en-US}}

Bois was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2016.{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Yve-Alain+Bois&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-02-18|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}

Bois has written books and articles on artists of European modernism. He is an editor of the journal October.

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110611114244/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/yve-alain-bois/articles/whose-formalism/ "Whose Formalism?" Art Bulletin, Mar. 1996] European Graduate School
• [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_3_37/ai_53286428/print Review of Tony Smith retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Artforum, Nov. 1998]
• [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_4_37/ai_53479689/print Review of "Supports/Surfaces" exhibition at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Artforum, Dec. 1998]
• [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_6_37/ai_54050180/print Bois and Linda Nochlin discuss the Matisse and Picasso exhibition, Artforum, Feb. 1999]
• [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_7_40/ai_84182763/print Review of Barnett Newman retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Artforum, Mar. 2002]
• [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_7_41/ai_98918657/print "The Mourning After," panel discussion on painting, Artforum, Mar. 2003]
• [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_2_42/ai_109023328/print On Fred Sandback, Artforum, Oct. 2003]

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120220065918/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/yve-alain-bois/biography/ Bois faculty page at European Graduate School]
• [http://www.janedealmeida.com/yve_alain_bois.pdf Interview with Bois for Folha de Sao Paulo, Caderno Mais!, 2005]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060822163522/http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=1084 MIT Press: list of books and articles by Bois]
• [http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00001434/01/1434_2.pdf All About Yve: An Interview with Yve-Alain Bois (1995)]
• [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=230425 "From Art to Barthes and Back Again"], The Harvard Crimson, September 19, 1991

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