Slavko Kopač

Bernard Blistène has been Honorary Director of the Centre Pompidou since 2021 and headed the institution from 2013 to 2021. Katharine Conley is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the College of William & Mary and Edward Tuck Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Emerita, at Dartmouth College. An art historian specialising in Art Brut, Déborah Lehot-Couette is the Scientific and Collections Director at the Dubuffet Foundation. Fabrice Flahutez is a full professor at the Université Jean Monnet in Saint-Etienne and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Kent Minturn is a lecturer in Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology and is an art historian, critic, translator and theorist of modern and contemporary art. Roberta Trapani is a historian of contemporary art with a Ph.D. awarded by Paris Nanterre and Palermo Universities in an international joint supervision programme.

• 9 Slavko Kopač: An Exhibition to RememberCristina Acidini11 In the Shade of the BaptiseryLuca Macchi12 Art as FreedomTamara Floričić18 The Hidden TreasureRoberta Trapani, Pietro Nocita26 Slavko Kopač: A Sketch of a PortraitBernard Blistène88 Kopač and Florence:From the Accademia di Belle Arti to Campi ElisiSusanna Ragionieri, Michele Amedei100 ‘Comme des frères jumeaux’: Slavko Kopač and Giordano FalzoniRoberta Serpolli110 Kopač, Builder of the Imaginary:‘A Different Figuration’Pauline Goutain120 Jean Dubuffet and Slavko Kopač:A Story about PaintersDéborah Lehot-Couette130 Au regard des divinités:Slavko Kopač and André BretonKatharine Conley138 A Voyage in Informal ArtKent Mitchell Minturn148 An International Adventure in Surrealism,Art Brut, and Informal ArtFabrice FlahutezAppendices181 Slavko Kopač, 1913–1995. Selected Chronology184 Selected Bibliography186 Authors