Eric Robertson is a British academic, Professor of Modern French Literary and Visual Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London.
[1] Robertson's research focuses on 20th century French literature, especially poetry, and the visual arts, with particular emphasis on European Modernism and the avant-gardes.
He is the author of Arp: Painter, Poet, Sculptor (2006), Writing Between the Lines (1995), a study of the bilingual novelist and essayist René Schickele, and various articles and chapters on 20th century French literature, especially poetry, and visual arts.
It examines the poems, novels, essays and autobiographical prose of Swiss-born French writer Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) against a turbulent historical background and reassesses his contribution to twentieth-century literature.
Robertson wrote the essay for the book Joan Miró: Feet on the Ground, Eyes on the Stars: Works from 1924 to 1936, published by Luxembourg + Co and Ridinghouse in 2022.