Laurent Gervereau

Laurent Gervereau (born 1956, in Paris) is a French artist, novelist, philosopher and filmmaker.

The founder of the discipline of Visual History (or Histiconologia),[1] he has devoted his professional life to the world of images, as well as to the direction of cultural and international institutions.

In 1977, he founded the pataphysico-situationist review Aux poubelles de la Gloire with Guy Bodson.

The middle part of this triptych was published by Sens & Tonka in 2001 with the title Ce livre n'est pas à lire (This Book is Not to be Read).

It was chosen by the Les Inrockuptibles magazine and the radio channel France Culture as one of the seven best novels of the year.

He will make the adaptation for manga of the third part of the tryptique with a Chinese artist Xin Ye ("Mixplanet", 2011).

In 1989, he built with Louis Rollinde a new artistic group with a new review in English and French: Painters of History (Les Peintres d'histoire).

He agreed to become president of the See-socioecolo Network, founded in 2010 in Brazil and Canada (official website of the socioecolo evolutionnists).

He creates the local-global annual meeting in Argentat sur Dordogne (France): Les Rencontres-Promenades "Histoires de Passages...".

In 1992, he founded the Group L'Image with Fabrice d'Almeida, Antoine de Baecque, Philippe Buton, Christian Delporte, Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, and David El Kenz.

There are many contributions such as his interview of Ernst Gombrich in London or Arturo Schwarz in Milan about Marcel Duchamp.

He built the Museums of Europe Network, founding the review of comparatist history "Comparare" with Jacques Le Goff, Eric Hobsbawm, Carlo Ginzburg, Rudolf von Thadden, Bronislaw Geremek.

The general bibliography (except articles and conferences) is on: official website of Laurent Gervereau, look at "traces".

Gervereau is now the president of the Institut des Images and director of: general website for cultural education.

[9] The historian Jacques Le Goff, who directed Annales review Annales School, wrote in the newspaper Le Monde (December 15, 2006) about the World Dictionary of Images: "President of the Institute of Images, Laurent Gervereau published a book that will be essential.