Art History

Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?

A comparative history of the ruins from the ancient East to the modern West.

A collection of mostly unpublished essays, notes and letters which shed a new light on Warburg's last studies.

A study of German Renaissance painters and the social movements of the time.

A pioneering study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called "monism"—the concept of a unity of matter and spirit—emerged and became increasingly popular among intellectuals, artists and scientists.

Drawing on a material, cultural and social history of art, Hugo Daniel proposes to understand the recognition and redefinition of drawing by the avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s, between the questioning of artists, the evolution of critics and the projects of gallery owners and curators, to show how drawing is understood as a complex reality, in act.