{{Short description|French poet, art critic and essayist}} 300px|thumb|Marcelin Pleynet, Venice, 2006 '''Marcelin Pleynet''' (born 23 December 1933, in Lyon, France) is a French poet, art critic and essayist. He was Managing Editor of the influential magazine ''Tel Quel'' from 1962 to 1982, and co-edited the journal ''L'Infini'' (Gallimard) with Philippe Sollers. He was Professor of Aesthetics at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1987 to 1998. He has published numerous monographs on 20th-century art, notably ''Situation de l’art moderne: Paris-New York'' (in association with William Rubin), ''Henri Matisse'','' Robert Motherwell: La vérité en peinture'', ''Les Modernes et la tradition'', ''Les États-Units de la peinture'' and ''L’art abstrait''. He has also published books of poetry and the novel ''Prise d’otage'', and an edition of ''Giorgione et les deux Vénus''.
== Bibliography ==
===Essays=== *Le savoir-vivre, Gallimard, 2006 *Alechinsky le pinceau voyageur, Gallimard, 2002 *Rothko et la France, L'épure Eds, 1999 *Rimbaud en son temps, Gallimard, 2005 *Judit Reigl, L'insolite-Adam Biro, 2001 *Les voyageurs de l'an 2000, Gallimard, 2000 *Poésie et "révolution", la révolution du style, Pleins Feux Eds, 2000 *Chardin - Le sentiment et l'esprit du temps, L'épure Eds, 1999 *Rothko et la France, L'épure Eds, 1999 *Notes sur le motif suivi de La Dogana, Dumerchez Naoum, 1998 *Lautréamont, Seuil, 1998 *L'homme habite poétiquement, Actes Sud, 1998 *Une saison, Dumerchez Naoum, 1996 *Henri Matisse, Gallimard, 1993 *Les modernes et la tradition, Gallimard, 1990 *''L'Art abstrait'', tome 5 (avec Michel Ragon), Adrien Maeght, 1988 *New-York Series, les sculptures en cire de Félix Rozen, galerie Gary, Paris, 1979/88 *Les Etats-Unis de la peinture, Seuil, 1986 *Fenêtre sur le Japon, exhibition of Félix Rozen, Central color Paris, 1986 *La place de Félix Rozen dans l'art contemporain (Situation pièce, Centre d'Action Culturelle, Saint Brieux, text read by the author), 1984 *Painting and System, Univ of Chicago, 1984 *Modernism-Modernity and the Philosophy of History, NSCAD Univ Press, 1983/2004
===Poetry=== *Le Pontos, Gallimard, 2002 *Premières poésies, Cadex, 1988 *Fragments du choeur - vers et proses, Denoël, 1984 *Le propre du temps, Gallimard, 1995 *Stanze, Seuil, 1973
===Novels=== *Prise d'otage, Gallimard 1986 *La vie à deux ou à trois, Gallimard, 1992
==References== *Philippe Forest, ''Histoire de Tel Quel'', Seuil, coll. « ''Fiction et Cie'' », 1995.
==External links== * [http://www.marcelinpleynet.fr/ Official website]
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