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Hervé Vanel is a scholar of contemporary art who first came to Brown in 2001 and has since continued teaching in History of Art and Architecture. He was educated at the Sorbonne, earning an M.A. (1992), a D.E.A. (1993) and a Ph.D. (2001). He offers introductory survey courses devoted to the history of art after 1945 and more specialized seminars in this field. His current research investigates critically the utopian visions of an emancipated artistic community as it developed during the second half of the 1960s in order to evaluate, through the archeology of our recent past, the contemporary developments of visual music and the infatuation for relational aesthetics. His publications include essays on Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol and John Cage.