Yve-Alain Bois

Yve-Alain Bois, 2010 © d.r., with courtesy of Yve-Alain Bois Disgusted by the way art history was being taught in French universities, Yve-Alain Bois enrolled in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), where Roland Barthes supervised first his degree and then his dissertation. On Barthes’ advice, he also attended Hubert Damisch’s seminar. Deeply involved in that intellectual ferment, he met Jacques Derrida, read Claude Lévi-Strauss and Walter Benjamin, was introduced to ling..