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PIERRE TAMINIAUX received his Phd in French Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Professor of 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Literatures at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He has also taught at Miami University, the University of Strasbourg, the University of Tours and the University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has been working for more than two decades on the relationship between literature and the visual arts in the 20th Century, particularly in Surrealism and the avant-garde. He is the co-founder and former Vice-President of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism.
He is the author of several scholarly books : Robert Pinget (1994), Poétique de la négation (1998), Surmodernités : Entre Rêve et technique (2003), The Paradox of Photography (2009) Littératures modernistes et arts d’avant-garde (2013), Du Surréalisme à la photographie contemporaine : au croisement des arts et de la littérature (2016). L’Ellipse et le cercle : Art, Poésie, Politique (2016) Révolte et Transcendance : Surréalisme, situationnisme et arts contemporains (2018), and Esthétiques radicales : Actualité des avant-gardes (2021).
Moreover, he has coedited the volumes Cinéma/Art(s) plastique(s) (2001), Poésie et Politique au XXe siècle (2011) and Littératures et Arts du vide (2018), as well as a special issue of Yale French Studies on Surrealism and its others (2006). He has also published more than sixty scholarly articles in ten different countries and has given more than one hundred talks and poetry readings throughout Europe and North America. Some of his articles have been translated into the Italian, the Korean and the Turkish language.
As a creative writer, he has published the novel Le Matin d’un voleur (2003), the plays Le Bord (2005). Feu noir (2009), Le Refus (2011), La Faille (2014), Le Grand chambardement (2016), Les Dormeurs (2017), L’ÎIe brune (2019) and Les Fantômes (2021) that combine Surrealist, Absurdist and Pataphysical influences, and the poetry volumes Les Mots de l’art (2012) inspired by the works of Hans Arp and Juan Gris, Poésie bleue : sur le Jazz (2018) and L’Oeil à côté : sur Giorgio Morandi (2019).
Finally, as a visual artist, he has exhibited some one hundred paintings on paper, drawings and photographs in five individual art shows both in his native Belgium and the United States. Moreover, he has presented fifteen sets of his conceptual photographs in seminars and conferences, from the East Coast of the United States (New York, Washington, Baltimore) to various European countries (France, The United Kingdom, Portugal, Turkey, Malta).