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Philippe Dagen, normalien and agrégé d’histoire defended a thesis in 1993 on “The myth of the return to painting and aesthetics in France, from symbolism to abstraction”. He is currently professor of contemporary art history at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

An art historian, Philippe Dagen is also a researcher and art critic. He has published numerous articles and books on the pictorial movements and painters of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His apparent preference for modern art can be seen in the chronicle he has been writing regularly for the newspaper Le Monde since 1985.