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Ulysse Dutoit was born in 1944 in France.
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The Forms of Violence: Narrative in Assyrian Art and Modern Culture
https://www.amazon.com/Forms-Violence-Narrative-Assyrian-Culture/dp/0805239731
1985
Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais
(As this book demonstrates, these artists train us in new ...)
As this book demonstrates, these artists train us in new modes of mobility, which differ from the moves of an appropriating consciousness. As a form of cultural resistance, a rejection of a view of reality - both objects and human subjects - as simply there for the taking, this training may even give birth to a new kind of political power, one paradoxically consistent with the renunciation of authority. In its movement among these three artists, Arts of Impoverishment traces a new form of movement within art.
https://www.amazon.com/Arts-Impoverishment-Beckett-Rothko-Resnais/dp/0674048768
1993
Caravaggio's Secrets
(Many critics have explored the homoerotic message in the ...)
Many critics have explored the homoerotic message in the early portraits of the baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio. In Caravaggio's Secrets, Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit emphasize instead the impenetrability of these portraits. The tension between erotic invitation and self-concealing retreat leads Bersani and Dutoit to conclude that the interest of these works is in their representation of an enigmatic address that solicits intimacy in order to block it with a secret.
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Leo-Bersani/dp/0262024497/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_US=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=caravaggio%27s+secrets&qid=1579778041&s=books&sr=1-1
1998
Caravaggio
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/dp/B01F81Z54G/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_US=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=caravaggio+british+film+institute+%28modern+classics%29&qid=1579778084&s=books&sr=1-1
1999
Ulysse Dutoit
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Ulysse Dutoit is a French-born American author and former educator. He is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his writings are The Forms of Violence: Narrative in Assyrian Art and Modern Culture, Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais, Caravaggio's Secrets, and Caravaggio.
Education
Ulysse Dutoit studied Beaux-Arts in Saint-Cloud and Paris. He received a licence de pedagogie in film.
Career
Ulysse Dutoit first gained teaching experience in schools in France and in Switzerland before deciding to come to the United States. He lived on the East Coast, where he found a job, teaching at Rutgers University and then at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Moving to the West Coast in 1975, Dutoit accepted a teaching position at the University of California in Berkeley, where he continued to teach courses in French film as well as in the study of French language.
Dutoit's written works cover various aspects of art, from sculpture to painting, his studies focusing on individual artists as well as the overall aesthetic expressed through the arts. His first book, written with fellow University of California professor and co-author Leo Bersani, was The Forms of Violence: Narrative in Assyrian Art and Modern Culture (1985). He also wrote Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais (1993) and Caravaggio's Secrets (1998). A related book, Bersani and Dutoit's Caravaggio (1999), is based on the 1986 film of the same title that was produced in England under the direction of Derek Jarman. In Caravaggio, which was written under the auspices of the British Film Institute, Dutoit praises Jarman's film, referring to it as a profound as well as an unsettling reflection on sexuality and identity.
Achievements
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Ulysse Dutoit is particularly known as the author of books on artists, art and culture, as well as an outstanding educator. Out of his numerous book publications, Caravaggio's Secrets and Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais, both written with Leo Bersani, made him well known in the context of queer theory.
Works
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Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais
(As this book demonstrates, these artists train us in new ...)
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Caravaggio's Secrets
(Many critics have explored the homoerotic message in the ...)
1998 - Caravaggio 1999
- The Forms of Violence: Narrative in Assyrian Art and Modern Culture 1985
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Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais
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There is no information about Ulysse Dutoit's private life.
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Nationality
United States France
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1975
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1985 - present