Gilbert Lascault (25 October 1934 – 19 December 2022) was a French novelist, essayist, and art critic.
Agrégé of philosophy in 1960, Gilbert Lascault began writing his thesis,[1] « Le monstre dans l’art occidental » ("The monster in Western art"), an essay of aesthetics inaugurating his writings to come.
[2] He discovered contemporary art by meeting Henri Michaux and Jean Dubuffet.
He has written in numerous magazines:[2] Traverses, La Quinzaine littéraire [fr], L’Art Vivant, Artstudio, XXe, Beaux Arts Magazine, La Revue d’esthétique For many years, he was one of the "pillars", of the Des Papous dans la tête [fr] program on France Culture, and has long participated in Panorama and Les Décraqués [fr].
[3]… From 4 May 2005, he was régent du Collège de 'Pataphysique [fr] at the chair of Teratoscopy & Dinography.