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    Pierre Francastel was a French art historian known for using sociological methods in his research. He studied literature early in his career and published works on 17th century French sculpture and the sculpture of Versailles. Francastel held academic positions and was a pioneer in applying sociological theories to the study of art.

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    Pierre Francastel

    Pierre Francastel (8 June 1900 – 2 January 1970) was a French art historian, best known for his use of
    sociological method.

    Francastel's initial period of study was in literature, at the Sorbonne. He worked in building conservation at
    Versailles while undertaking research toward his doctoral degree, which was on the sculpture of Versailles,
    and in 1928 he published a monograph, including a critical catalogue, on the seventeenth-century French
    sculptor François Girardon. In 1930, he was appointed director of the Warsaw Institut français, and in 1936
    he was appointed professor at the University in Strasbourg. In 1948, he was created inaugural Professor of
    the Sociology of Art at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris.[1]

    Francastel's research interests varied between the French seventeenth century and the nineteenth century,
    but his sociological methodology, strongly influenced by the work of Émile Durkheim, remained the
    intellectual basis upon which his scholarly thought and corpus were organised. Francastel is also noted for
    his promotion of spatial concerns, both physical and conceptual, prefiguring the "spatial turn" of later
    scholars such as Henri Lefebvre.[2] Two of his key works, that emphasise Francastel's view of art as a
    system both embedded within and productive of social relations, are his Art et Sociologie (1948) and
    Peinture et Société (1951).

    Key works
    Girardon. Biographie et catalogue critiques, l’œuvre complète de l’artiste (Paris, 1928)
    La sculpture de Versailles. Essai sur les origines et l’évolution du gout français classique
    (Paris, 1930)
    Art et Technique aux 19e et 20e siècles' (Paris, 1956). English translation by Randall
    Cherry: Art & Technology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (New York, 2000)
    La réalité figurative : éléments structurels de sociologie de l'art (Paris, 1965)

    Further reading
    Yve Alain Bois, "Foreword", to Francastel's Art & Technology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
    (trans. Randall Cherry; New York: Zone Books, 2000), pp. 7–15.

    References
    1. "Dictionary of Art Historians" (http://arthistorians.info/francastelp).
    2. C. Doyon, "Francastel, Pierre (1900-1970)", Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, ed.
    D.R. Woolf (New York, 1998), vol. 1, p. 326.

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