Guy ROBERT
1933 - 2000
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Writer and lecturer

Doctor in aesthetics from the University of Paris

Historian and critic, art expert and professor

Adviser in art publishing. (Les Éditions Iconia).

Born in Quebec in 1933, Guy ROBERT holds a doctorate in aesthetics from the University of Paris. He is a writer and lecturer, historian and critic, art expert and adviser in art publishing (Iconia).

In 1964 he was the founder in Montreal of the first Museum of contemporary art to be opened in Canada, where he has been professor in many colleges and universities.

He is currently counsellor in acquisition of works of art, mainly in the Quebec domain.

He is the author of more than 87 titles and a thousand articles. He has also contributed to art films and to hundreds of radio or television broadcasts.

He has presented hundreds of lectures, in relation with his books on modern art (Picasso, Dali, Moore, Francis Bacon, the avant-gardes, etc) and on art in Quebec (Pellan, Borduas, Riopelle, etc); or on specific topics in art history or aesthetics such as : the beautiful and the awful, the genuine and the fake, the unfinished, the landscape, the human figure, the bestiaries, eroticism, esotericism, the ukiyo-e, the ritual negro sculpture, the art markets.

He has been honoured with the Grand Literary Prize of Montreal.  His last book "DESPRÉS" awarded 1999 Gutenberg Gold Medal.

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Among his books (English versions are indicated by the letter E and LINKS of interest are added)

• DESPRÉS, René Després (painter), - Official Launch : Somewhere In Time. (F) (A) (E) (I) (A) (J )
• Le Pluralisme dans l'art au Québec, avec manifeste, 1998. 331p.
• DUFOUR, Marcellin Dufour (peintre), Éditions Iconia, Montréal, 1995, 176p.
• DOH, Masahiko Doh (artiste), Éditions Iconia, Montréal, 1991, 96p. (E)
• PETIT, Gaston Petit (artiste), Éditions D.D.B., Paris, 1990, 176p.
• BELLEFLEUR, Léon Bellefleur (artiste), Éditions Iconia, Montréal, 1988, 240p. (E)
• Art et non finito (esthétique), Éditions France-Amérique, Montréal, 1984, 318p.
• Art actuel au Québec (essai), Éditions Iconia, Montréal, 1983, 256p.
• RIOPELLE, Jean-Paul Riopelle (artiste), Éditions France-Amérique, Montréal, 1981, 280p.
• DALLAIRE, Jean Dallaire (peintre), Éditions France-Amérique, Montréal, 1980, 264p.
• La Peinture au Québec depuis ses origines (essai), Éditions Iconia, Montréal, 1978, 221p.
• BORDUAS ou le dilemme culturel québécois (essai), Éditions Stanké, Montréal, 1977, 256p.
• FORTIN, Marc-Aurèle Fortin (peintre), Éditions Stanké, Montréal, 1976, (E) Gage, Toronto, 1976, 302p.
• LEMIEUX, Jean-Paul Lemieux (peintre), Éditions Stanké, Montréal, 1975, 304p.
• BONET, Jordi Bonet (artiste), Éditions Songe, Montréal, 1975, 132p.
• L'Art au Québec depuis 1940 (essai), Éditions La Presse, Montréal, 1973, 501p.
• BORDUAS, Paul-Émile Borduas (peintre), P.U.Q., Montréal, 1972, 340p.
• Aspects de la littérature québécoise, Éditions Beauchemin, Montréal, 1970, 192p.
• Poésie actuelle, Éditions Déom, Montréal, 1970, 408p.
• DUMOUCHEL, Albert Dumouchel (peintre-graveur), Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1970, 96p.
• Québec se meurt (poésie), Éditions Songe, Montréal, 1969, 96p.
• Le su et le tu (esthétique), Éditions Songe, Montréal, 1969, 96p.
• École de Montréal (art), Éditions C.P.P., Montréal, 1964, 152p. (E)
• Connaissance nouvelle de l'art (esthétique), Éditions Déom, Montréal, 1963, 272p.
• PELLAN, Alfred Pellan (peintre), Éditions C.P.P., Montréal, 1963, 136p. (E)

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