Gilbert Lascault

Gilbert Lascault (25 October 1934, Strasbourg) is a French novelist, essayist, and art critic.

Agrégé of philosophy in 1960, Gilbert Lascault began writing his thesis, « Le monstre dans l’art occidental » ("The monster in Western art"), an essay of aesthetics inaugurating his writings to come. He discovered contemporary art by meeting Henri Michaux and Jean Dubuffet.

An engraver and calligrapher, Gilbert Lascault taught aesthetics and the philosophy of art the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense (from 1988) then at the Sorbonne (since the second half of the 1990s), "proposing" seminars of uncertainty "to students and researchers in philosophy, art history and plastic arts".

A specialist in surrealism, he has published several books on this subject.

He writes and has written in numerous magazines:Traverses, La Quinzaine littéraire (), L’Art Vivant, Artstudio, XXe, Beaux Arts magazine (), La Revue d’esthétique

For many years, he is one of the "pillars", of the Des Papous dans la tête () program on France Culture, and has long participated in Panorama and Les Décraqués (). In 1995, he was the guest of honor of the Oulipo.

Gilbert Lascault participated, as author, in the realization of a large number of artist's books with, in particular, Pierre Alechinsky, Marcel Alocco, Christian Babou (), Eliz Barbosa, Cantié, Henri Cueco, Bertrand Dorny (), Ghislaine Escande, Nathalie Grall, Françoise Gründ, Philippe Hélénon, Joël Leick, Stanislav Marijanović, Marianne Montchougny, Daniel Nadaud (), Gaëlle Pelachaud, Denis Pouppeville, Antonio Seguí, Brigitte Tartière, Gérard Trignac (), and Jacques Vimard ()

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