Thomas Schlesser, director of the Hartung-Bergman Foundation, is an art historian, writer, curator and professor at the École Polytechnique. He has authored numerous works exploring the links between aesthetics (visual arts, literature, mass culture…) and politics, including Anna-Eva Bergman. “Luminous Lives” (Gallimard, 2022) and “L’Univers sans l’homme” (Hazan, 2016). His first novel, “Les Yeux de Mona” (Albin Michel, 2024), has become an international literary phenomenon.

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