Pierre Daix

Pierre Daix (born the May 24th 1922 with Ivry-sur-Seine) is a Journaliste and writer, friend of Pablo Picasso, is the author of several works on Picasso, several works of art on other artists, articles and books on its communist experiment, and its experiment concentrationnaire with Mauthausen and of the novels.

Biography

It adheres to the French Communist party, at 17 years, in 1939. In July 1940, Pierre Daix creates a student club of the laic Center of the inns of the youth (Claj) which was used as legal folding screen with the student clandestine Communists. Resisting, it is stopped. Prisoner of the Vichyist prisons, it passes from Fresnes to Clairvaux then to the concentration camp of Mauthausen. in Mauthausen, knowing German, Pierre Daix works with the organization of clandestine international resistance and to help to save resistant French without reference to political origin.

Thereafter, with the Release, it is named principal private secretary of the communist minister Charles Tillon with the ministry for the Air, the Armament and the Rebuilding.

It writes an article, “ Pierre Daix, number 59.807 in Mauthausen ”, appeared in the French Letters , contradicting that it had there a universe concentrationnaire in Soviet Union and answering thus negatively the request, of the Communist militant David Rousset, a board of inquiry on the existence of concentration camps in Soviet Union

In 1950, Pierre Daix is director of the communist newspaper This evening , drawing daily between 80.000 and 100.000 specimens.

Pierre Daix publishes in 1957 a Lettre with Maurice Nadeau in which it approaches face the crimes of Joseph Stalin. He opens the French Letters , of which he is editor association, with the revisions of Stalinism.

He presents One day of Ivan Denissovitch , of Alexandre Soljenitsyne with the French readers in 1963. He makes a leading article in 1968 to say that when the enormous majority of the students of the country enter in revolt, at the time of the Printemps of Prague.

In 1974, it publishes a book what I know of Soljenitsyne at the time of the publication of the Gulag Archipelago and breaks with PCF, after a master key of weapons with Rene Andrieu, editor association of Humanity . In October 1978, in a premonitory chronicle published in the Point , after the election of the pope Jean-Paul II, it entitles its article the hope changed camp and described the seism which will shake Communism.

It contributed, since 1968, with the debate on the new criticism (in the communist review new criticism ) and the history of the Modern art.

Former editor association of the French Letters , it was there the collaborator of Louis Aragon of 1948 with 1972.

He receives the price Georges Pompidou in 2003 for his very important contribution to the knowledge of art, by his very many works on the subject.

Books and articles

Books

Pierre Daix, All my time, Revisions of my memory , Bookstore Arthème Beech, 2001 (autobiography).
Pierre Daix, Prague in the middle , General union of editions, Paris, 1974,310 p.
Pierre Daix, I believed in the morning , Laffont, Paris, 1976,470 p. (political autobiography).
Pierre Soulages, Pierre Daix, and James Johnson Sweeney, Pierre Soulages: work 1947-1990 , Ides and Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2000,255 p.
Pierre Daix, Braudel , Flammarion, Paris, 1995,567 p. (biography on the historian Fernand Braudel).
Pierre Daix, Aragon: a life to change , Flammarion, 1995, 2nd ED. (1st ED. 1975), 564 p. (biography on the poet and communist Louis Aragon).
Anne Baldassari, Peter-Klaus Schuster, Pierre Daix, and Heinz Berggruen, Picasso/Berggruen: A particular collection , Flammarion, Paris, 2006,203 p.
Jean-Louis Andral and Pierre Daix, Picasso: the love of life (1946-1949) , Skira, Paris, 2006.
Pierre-Andre Boutang, Pierre Daix, 13 days of the life of Picasso (DVD), Meeting of the national museums, Paris, 2005.
Pierre Daix, Post-war periods of Picasso (1945-1955) and its rupture with Aragon , Ides and Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2006.
Pierre Daix, Zao Wou-ki: work 1935-1993 , Ides and Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2000,255 p.
Jorge Semprun, Maria Teresa Ocaña, Jean-Paul Barber-Mueller, Pierre Daix, Picasso: The man with the thousand masks , Somogy, Paris, 2006,239 p.
Pierre Daix, François Pinault. Biographical test , ED. of Fallois, Paris, 1998.
Pierre Daix, a Mistress for eternity , ED. Rock, Paris, 2002. (novel on the love life of Cézanne)
Pierre Daix, " The Letters françaises" : stakes for the history of a newspaper, 1941-1972 , Tallandier, Paris, 2004,250 p.
Pierre Daix, Life of painter of Pablo Picasso , ED. Threshold, Paris, 1977.
Pierre Daix, All work paints of Picasso , ED. Flammarion, Paris, 1980.
Pierre Daix, Picasso, Rungis, Profiles of art , ED. Oak, Paris, 1990.
Pierre Daix, the Fortress empties , the brought together French editors, Paris 1954. (work on Mauthausen).
Pierre Daix, For a cultural history of the modern art: the twentieth century , Odile Jacob, Paris, 2000.
Pierre Daix, Hans Hartung , Bordered/Gervis, Paris, 1991,393 p.
Pierre Daix, the Daily life of the surrealist ones. 1917-1932 , Hatchet, Paris, 1993.
Pierre Daix, Breviary for Mathausen , Gallimard, Paris, 2005.
Pierre Daix, Antoni Clavé. Assemblies, 1960-1999 , ED. Ides and Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2001.
Pierre Daix, One season Picasso , ED. rock, Paris, 1997.
Pierre Daix, Dictionary Picasso , Robert Laffont, Paris, 1995,995 p.
Pierre Daix, George Boudaille, Joan Rosselet, Picasso, 1900-1906: catalog reasoned of work painted , Ides and Calendes, Paris, 1966,344 p.
Pierre Daix, Picasso, life of the painter , Seuil, Paris, 1977.
Pierre Daix, creative Picasso , Seuil, Paris, 1987.
Pierre Daix, Delacroix the liberator , club of the friends of the book progressist, Paris, 1963.
Pierre Daix, the Life of painter of Pablo Picasso , Seuil, Paris, 1977.
Pierre Daix, the Life of painter of Edouard Manet , Fayard, Paris, 1983,336 p.
Pierre Daix, Gauguin , JC Lattès, Paris, 1989,418 p.
Nicolas de Staël, Pierre Daix, Letters and drawings , Ides and Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2000,128 p.
Mariano Constant, Pierre Daix (foreword), Antonio Muñoz-Molina (postface), the Spanish partisan: 1933-1945 , Paris, Tirésias, 2004,263 p.
Pierre Daix, Four days in November , Belfond, Paris, 1994,293 p.
Pierre Daix, Armand Israel, Pablo Picasso: files of the Police headquarter (1901-1940) , ED. Acatos, Lausanne, 2003,140 p.
Pierre Daix, Picasso, thirty years after , Ides and Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2003.

Pierre Daix, Farming Historia Del Arte Moderno , Catedra, Madrid, 2004.
Pierre Daix, Picasso: Life and Art , Thames & Hudson, Toronto, 1994,450 p.
Anne Baldassari (to dir.), Pierre Daix, Michael C. Fitzgerald, Brigitte Leal, Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation , Museum off Modern Art, New York, 1996.
Pablo Picasso, Pierre Daix, Anna Fabregas, Christopher Green, Picasso: Landscapes 1890-1912: From the Academy to the Avant-garde , Little Brown, New York, 1995.
Pierre Daix, Lorraine Levy, Picasso (Profile in Art) , Barrie & Jenkins, London, 1991,
Pierre Daix, Joan Rosselet. Picasso: The Cubist Years, 1907-1916. Catalog has Reasons off the Paintings and Related Works , Thames and Hudson, New York, 1979,375 p.
Pierre Daix, Cubists and Cubism , Rizzoli/Skira, New York, 1982,170 p.

Articles

"A literature of party (I) " , New Criticism, No June 7th, th and th 1949, pp. 73-81
" A literature of party (I) " , New Criticism, No July 8th, th and th - August 1949, pp. 52-59
" The positive hero in littérature" , New Criticism, No December 11th, th and th 1949, pp. 83-92 (passim).
" Has just appeared… " , New Criticism, 2nd year, No November 20th, th and th 1950, pp. 89-97
" Documentary exactitude and artistic truth in the volume V of the Communists of Aragon" , New Criticism, 3rd year, No June 27th, th and th 1951, pp. 124-131
" The objectivity of Aragon" , New Criticism, 3rd year, No September 29th, th and th - October 1951, pp. 65-72
1988, Research on the Young ladies of Avignon, article published in the Gazette of the Art schools

the naked one at the XXe century, exposure, Saint-Paul, Marguerite Foundation and Aimé Maeght, July 4th - October 30th, 2000, catalogs by Jean-Louis Prat and Pierre Daix, Saint-Paul: Maeght foundation, 2000, Paris.

revisited Picasso and Matisse, October 9th, 2002.
blue Triangle: Spanish Republicans with Mathausen by Handbook Razola, Constant Mariano, and Pierre Daix January 23rd, 2002
the Cubism De Picasso: Catalog Reasons Of Work Painted 1907-1916 by Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet June 1979
Antoni Clavé: Assemblies 1960-1999, October 14th, 2001
New Criticism And Modern art, October 29th, 1968
Zao Wou-KI by Pierre Daix and Wou-ki Zao May 3rd, 2000
Picasso, September 27th, 1993
Amelia by Henry Fielding, Pierre Daix, and Anne Villelaur January 5th, 2000
Pierre Alechinsky by Pierre Daix and Pierre Alechinsky August 3rd, 1999
Picasso and the theater, decorations of Oedipus-King: Exposure, Antibes, Picasso museum, (January 15th - March 21st, 1999) by Pierre Daix March 10th, 1999
Picasso by Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet October 29th, 1979
For a cultural history of the modern art: Of David with Cézanne, March 19th, 1998
Picasso by Pierre Daix and Georges Boudaille December 1967
Letters in Denise by Louis Aragon and Pierre Daix May 1997
One Picasso season, March 4th, 1997.
Re-examined BNF, N° 8 - 2001, the collections under the glance of the writers, the Library invited some writers and artists to visit its collections: discoveries, free meditations, digressions of François Bon, Michel Chailloux, Helene Cixous, Pierre Daix, Pierre Étaix, Pierre Guyotat and Olivier Rollin.

Interviews

Pierre Daix, " Will Aragon survive the fall of Communism? " , Remarks collected by Andre Clavel, the Event of Thursday, 28.04.1994, pp. 110-111.
Pierre Daix, " Aragon is not innocent" , Remarks collected by Catherine Argand, Lira, No 255, May 1997, pp. 42-43.
Pierre Daix, " It clung to a party which did not want a lui" , Remarks collected by Sebastien Fol, literary Le Figaro, March 13rd, 2004, p. 3.
Pierre Daix, of the autobiography to self-criticism , Article published in Le Figaro Magazine of the Saturday, February 24, 2001, pp. 39 sq. (Remarks collected by Catherine Nay and Patrice de Néritens), http://s.huet.free.fr/kairos/aletheia/pdaix.htm

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