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Francis Haskell, Questions of Taste
Louvre Interviews series
These films are designed as encounters—with people, ideas, methods. […] They use the means of cinema—its ability to evoke the past, and often even the invisible—to bring the viewer face to face with the art historian. (Michel Laclotte, former Director of the Musée du Louvre.)
Director(s): Renan Pollès
Genre
Documentary
Copyright
1990
Length
43 minutes
Producer(s)
Lézards associés ; Musée du Louvre
Co-producer(s)
La Sept/Arte
Though born in Britain, Francis Haskell is a truly European art historian, a perfect connoisseur of French and Italian cultures, and a researcher who prefers "the shadows and the sweet solitude of centuries past" to the spotlights. He nonetheless agreed to let Renan Pollès follow him on a journey from Cambridge to Rome, through the museums, churches, libraries, and archives that nourish his work as a historian. This original and innovative thinker, a specialist in the relationships between artists and patrons, has extended his research to the history of taste, a central issue.