Note on the Life and Work of Jacques Thuillier

“Faced with a history of art always suspended to transcendence, whether it be the dialectic of Spirit or the mystique of Progress, he would perform a Copernican inversion, putting the work and the artist back at the centre of the enquiry. Such secularization was unwelcome at a time which we can now see was desperately trying to cling to beliefs, while assertively claiming its freedom. Instead of well-trodden paths which allow for ever more subtle scholastic speculation that students so love ...