by Jean Clair · Payot · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782228892285
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«Le Voyageur égoïste» is the essay by Jean Clair, published by Payot in paperback (294 pages, in French).
Jean Clair invites readers on a journey through Japan, the United States, the former Soviet Union and Europe, with stops in Antwerp, Vienna and Venice. Jean Clair, heritage curator and former director of the Picasso Museum, reflects on the few privileged places and moments of a life and champions the travel notebook, in the tradition of Montaigne.
It belongs to the Petite Bibliothèque Payot/Voyageurs collection (no. 364), within the categories of art and culture and philosophy.
Recommended for readers of travel literature, cultural essays and reflection on aesthetic experience.
Jean Clair is the pen name of Gérard Régnier. Clair is an essayist, a polemicist, an art historian, an art conservator, and a member of the Académie Française since May 2008. He was, for many years, the director of the Picasso Museum in Paris. Among the milestones of his long and productive career is a comprehensive catalog of the works of Balthus. He was also the director of the Venice Biennale in 1995.
