Collection: Élisabeth Lebovici

Élisabeth Lebovici (b. 1953) is a French art critic and historian whose writing has been central to the reception of conceptual art, queer theory, and AIDS activism in France since the 1980s. A former art critic for Libération and co-founder of the journal Documents sur l’art, Lebovici has written extensively on artists working at the intersection of identity, politics, and institutional critique.

Her publications include The Name of Philippe Thomas (Sternberg Press / Kunsthalle Bern, 2008), a study of the artist who systematically dissolved authorship through projects such as readymades belong to everyone®, and Ce que le sida m’a fait (JRP Ringier, 2017), a major work on art and the AIDS crisis in France. Lebovici's writing consistently attends to the conditions under which artworks are produced, attributed, and received — and to the political stakes of those conditions.

Publications gathered here include books and critical texts by Élisabeth Lebovici. Original and period items.