Michael Francis Gibson

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MICHAEL FRANCIS GIBSON Art critic (International Herald-Tribune, New York Times and other publications), art historian, anthropologist, writer, independent scholar and occasional musician, Michael Francis Gibson, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1929 has, since 1956, published books, articles, essays and poems in both English and French.

Editor World Heritage (UNESCO) since 1998 and active contributor to the Greater Dream Project since that date, also advisor to the non-profit association, Friends of the Greater Dream, which put the Greater Dream Project website on line (September 2007 - www.greaterdream.com) and Paddy’s Blog (http://gondwanafm.blogspot.com), which is maintained by Padraic Lonternough, Foreign Minister of Gondwana.

The association also encouraged the publication of the first volume of Miguel Errazu’s Chronicles of the Greater Dream (The Riddle of the Seal) by the University of Levana Press. While everything indicates that Gondwana is a fictitious country, the association, the book, the website and the publisher all have a verifiable legal existence – the latter having recently been incorporated in the United Kingdom with the approval of the Privy Council (in a letter dated 6 July 2007).

Gibson’s recent writings include a “Scholarly Introduction” to Errazu’s book. Suspicion has been voiced in some quarters that Gibson himself may be the author and Miguel Errazu pseudonym. Arguments for this are sought in the striking analogies observed between views that Gibson expresses in some of his books and those inherent to Miguel Errazu’s “full account of recent events in Gondwana.” We have no definitive comment to make on this matter.

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[edit] Publications

  • A Study of Hebrew Thought, Claude Trèsmontant, (into English, Desclé and Co. 1960)
  • A translation of E.R. Dodds’ The Greeks and the Irrational (University of California Press, 1959) into French (Aubier-Montaigne, 1965 and subsequently Flammarion, Paris).
  • Peter Brook, after his return from Africa (The Drama Review, in 1973).
  • Peter Bruegel (in French Nouvelles Editions Françaises, Paris, 1980 and English Tabard Press, 1986)
  • The Symbolists (French Nouvelles Editions Françaises, 1984, English Abrams, 1986)
  • Les Horizons du Possible, (French, Ed. du Félin, Paris, 1984)
  • Edo Murtic (French, Paris Art Center, 1989)
  • Paul Gauguin (in English, French and Spanish, Polygrafa, Spain,1990)
  • Duchamp-Dada, (in French, Nouvelles Editions Françaises-Casterman, 1990) International Art Book Award of the Vasari Prize in 1991.
  • Symbolism (English, French, German and other languages, Taschen, 1994)
  • Odilon Redon (English, French, German and other languages, Taschen, 1995).
  • The Mill and the Cross, Peter Bruegel’s Way to Calvary, (in French, Noêsis, 1996 and in English, Acatos, Lausanne, 2001)
  • Isia Leviant, Mains (French Cercle d’art, Paris, 1997)
  • André Naggar, Images Mentales (English and French, Cercle d’art, 1998)
  • Hanneke Beaumont (French, Cercle d’Art, Paris, 2001)
  • Ces Lois Inconnues, an anthropological examination of what is meant by “the meaning of life”, (in French Métailié, Paris, 2002)
  • Adam Henein (in English, French and Arabic, Skira, 2005)
  • Gianguido Bonfanti (English, French and Portuguese, Acatos, 2005). I
  • Zoran Music (in French special edition of Connaissance des Arts, 1995).

[edit] Catalogue texts

  • Zoran Music, Museum of Fine Arts in Caen, France (1995), the Jewish Museum, New York, (2003) and the Jenisch Museum in Vevey, Switzerland (2003).
  • Louis Archambault (Canadian Cultural Center, Paris, 1980)
  • Jerzy Stajuda (Guimiot Gallery, Brussels, 1985)
  • Miguel Rasero (Guimiot Gallery, 1986)
  • Pierre Alechinsky (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1987)
  • Louis Le Broquy (Picasso Museum, Antibes, undated catalogue)
  • Elie Abrahami (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1994)
  • Jacques Zwobada (Seat of the United Nations, New York, 1996)
  • Jean-Michel Folon – Travels (Olympic Museum, Lausanne, 1997)
  • Jean-Paul Agosti (Hospice St. Roch, Issoudun, France, 1998)
  • Bang Hai Ja (Le Cercle d’Art, Paris, 2001)
  • Izhar Cohen (Municipal Art Gallery, Raanana, Israel, 2003).

[edit] Radio work

  • Radio programs (Radio-Canada, France-Culture) devoted to artistic, cultural and philosophical issues, resulting from his 1975 meeting with the German philosopher Ernst Bloch, with Pierre Furlan and Peter Stein (subsequently published by Arno Münster in Tagträume vom Aufrechten Gang, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1977).
  • André Malraux, French Minister of Culture
  • Simone Signoret and Yves Montand, actors
  • Joan Miró, Artist
  • Zao Wou-ki, Painter.
  • Vincent van Gogh Engineer and nephew of the painter
  • Günther Grass, Writer
  • Philippe Soupault, Poet and cofounder of Surrealism with André Breton
  • Tadeusz Kantor, Theater director
  • Jean-Michel Folon, Artist
  • Hubert Reeves, Physicist
  • Sami-Ali, Psychoanalyst
  • Vladimir Jankelevitch, Philosopher
  • Evgen Bavčar, Blind photographer
  • Jean Clair, Museum curator
  • Jean-Louis Heim, Paleontologist
  • Tomonobu Imamichi, Philosopher
  • Arnold Mandel, Writer
  • Jean Ladrière, Philosopher
  • Jean-Pierre Vernant, Greek scholar
  • Christian Dotremont, Artist and writer

[edit] Television and film

  • An American in Paris and the Polish Question (TV Polonia 2000), two documentary films about Gibson by Stefan Szlachtycz.
  • Gibson is now working with Polish artist and director Lech Majewski, on a feature-length film based in his book, The Mill and the Cross.