Frédéric Ogée
Frédéric Ogée is a professor of British literature and art history at Université Paris Cité. He is a specialist in the art and literature of the eighteenth century. In 2006-07, he curated the first-ever exhibition of Hogarth for the Louvre. He is currently working on a series of four large monographs in French on 18th- and 19th-century British artists, Thomas Lawrence, J.M.W.Turner, Thomas Gainsborough and William Hogarth, to be published by Cohen & Cohen (Paris) over the next four years. The first one, Thomas Lawrence-Le genie du portrait anglais came out in December 2022. From 2014 to 2017 he was a member of Tate Britain’s Advisory Council in London, and since 2014 has been a member of the City of Paris Scientific Council. In 2018-19 he was Kress Fellow in the Literature of Art at the Clark Art Institute and then the William Allan Neilson Professor at Smith College, both in Massachusetts. From 2023-24, he will teach a course on the English school of art at Ecole du Louvre.
Selected publications
- Thomas Lawrence, Le génie du portrait anglais, Paris, Cohen & Cohen, 2022.
- Jardins et Civilisations, in collaboration with Aurélie Godet, Collection “Jardins et sociétés” Valenciennes, Presses Universitaires de Valenciennes, 2018.
- Sensing the World- Taste and the senses in the Eighteenth Century (II), Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2017.
- Intellectual journeys: the translation of ideas in Enlightenment England, France and Ireland, co-edited with Lise Andries, Darach Sanfey et John Dunkley Volume: SVEC 2013:12. Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2013.
- Jonathan Swift, Voyage à Lilliput, New translation, Preface and Notes, Paris: Hachette, 2012.
- The Definition of Colour, a collection of essays, INTERFACES 33, 2012.
- Taste and the senses in the Eighteenth century (I), co-edited with Peter Wagner, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2012.
- Grammaire appliquée de l'anglais, 4ème édition revue et corrigée, in collaboration with Paul Boucher (Université de Nantes). Paris: Armand Colin, 2017
- J.M.W.Turner. Les paysages absolus. Paris : Hazan, 2010, 400p.
- William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye, &tc., a critical edition, Presses Universitaires de Pau, 2009. First French annotated edition.
- Ossian then and now, a collection of essays, INTERFACES 27, 2008.
- Jonathan Richardson : Traité sur la peinture, etc., a critical edition, in collaboration with Isabelle Baudino. Paris: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2008. First French edition.
- Ruins and Sketches in the Enlightenment, co-edited with Peter Wagner, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2008.
- Diderot and European Culture, a collection of essays, co-edited with Anthony Strugnell, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 2006. Repr.2009.
- Representation and Performance in the Eighteenth Century, co-edited with Peter Wagner, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2006.
- ‘Better in France? The circulation of ideas across the Channel in the 18th century, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2005.
- Art & Nation: la fondation de la Royal Academy of Arts, 1768-1836, in collaboration with Isabelle Baudino and Jacques Carré, Paris: Armand Colin, 2004.
- William Hogarth : Representing Nature's Machines. Co-edited with David Bindman (University College London) and Peter Wagner (Universität Landau). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001.
- The Dumb Show: Image and Society in the Works of William Hogarth. A Collection of essays, in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1997. Repr.2016
Forthcoming / A paraître:
- J.M.W.Turner, Paris, Cohen & Cohen, Autumn 2023.
- Thomas Gainsborough, Paris, Cohen & Cohen, 2024.
- William Hogarth, Paris, Cohen & Cohen, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPuyh8fUgLQ&feature=youtu.be&list=PLLYuYwU8AsaO24-3IVyFZjrZha8dxnUo9
https://u-paris.fr/societes-humanites/thomas-lawrence-le-genie-du-portrait-anglais/
https://larca.u-paris.fr/membre/ogee-frederic/
https://twitter.com/franceculture/status/1650054482904973313?s=43&t=C0xNicbXq3_8iRceOBVSXQ
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