Press Release
Transatlantic Conversation: About Poetry and Art
Conversation
Transatlantique: autour de l’art et de la poésie
1 March/Mars 2018
American art historian/critic, Beth Gersh-Nešić and French poet/literary critic Jean-LucPouliquen share a deep appreciation for the poet/critic André Salmon, who
was the close friend of poet/critic Guillaume Apollinaire and artist Pablo
Picasso. From both sides of the Atlantic
Ocean, they reminisce about the beginning of the twentieth century when Salmon
participated in the great adventure Cubism.
Transported by their conversation, the two travel down the road of time
to the most recent contemporary expressions.
Within this exchange, they ask each other about the current state of
affairs for poetry and art in Europe and in the United States, how the new
forms of communication spread the word about the arts, and how these art forms
are shared from one culture to another.
As they acknowledge the globalization of art, they conclude with the
statement that once again the arts try to “do good,” as was their purpose in
the past.
About the Authors
Beth
Gersh-Nešić, Ph.D. is an art historian and the
director of the New York Arts Exchange, an arts educational service which
offers art tours and lectures in the New York area. She specializes in Cubism and the art
criticism of the period. She has published on the poet/art critic André Salmon,
a close friend of Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob, and numerous
modernist and post-modern artists. She teaches art history at Purchase College
in New York.
Jean-Luc Pouliquen is a poet and literary critic. Collections of
his poetry have been published in Mémoire
sans tain (One-Way Memoir) and Célébrations (Celebrations). He is the author of several interviews dedicated to
poetry, such as Fortune du poète (The Poet’s Fortune) with Jean Bouhier
and Sur la page chaque jour (On the Page Every Day) with Daniel Biga,
as well as essays. He wrote the books Gaston Bachelard ou le rêve des origins (Gaston Bachelard or Dreaming of Origins), and Georges Pompidou, un président passionné de poésie (Georges Pompidou, a President Passionate about
Poetry). He
regularly leads poetry writing workshops.
Cover Design: Paul Vilalta's painting Interior
