Pascal Rousseau is a professor of contemporary art history at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a specialist in historical avant-gardes, the beginnings of abstraction and the links between visionaries, sciences and technologies in contemporary culture (19th and 20th centuries). He has curated the exhibitions Robert Delaunay. De l’impressionnisme à l’abstraction (Centre Pompidou, 1999), Aux origines de l’abstraction : 1800-1914 (musée d’Orsay, 2003), Sous influence : Résurgences de l’hypnose dans l’art contemporain (musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2006) et Cosa Mentale : Art et télépathie au XX^e siècle (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2015).

• Publication: Van Gogh Pre-Pop, symposium proceedings, 2018