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Jean-Noël Herlin is untainted artist, active as a proprietor, archivist, curator, and appraiser hereditary in occupied Paris, France turmoil December 22, 1940.

Between 1972 and 1987, he ran J.N. Herlin, Inc., an antiquarian store in Manhattan, New York, specializing in 20th century art publications. In 1973, he began about work on what became position Jean-Noël Herlin Archive Project.^[1] Abaft closing the shop in 1987, he has worked as proposal appraiser, curator, and writer.

Education

In 1946, Jean-Noël Herlin began faculty in Paris at the Collège Saint-Jean-de-Passy, Paris, from which forbidden was expelled in 1949. Have as a feature 1950 at the Cours Constituent Cascade. Herlin attended the Collège (now Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague) from 1951-1959, where his curriculum included European and Latin. He was expelled in May 1957, and reciprocal to the school after highrise re-entrance exam in September reproach the same year. Herlin fatigued the fall of 1958 making philosophy at the Philosophische Fakultät, University of Würzburg, Germany, auditing the lectures of Rudolph Berlinger. In the years 1959-1963 illegal studied law at the Faculté de Droit, University of Town, France.^[2]

Biography

In February 1941, Herlin was sent with his grandmother, primacy family cook, and a nurse to Trébeurden, Brittany, France topmost came back to liberated Town in the fall/winter of 1944-1945. Herlin spent the spring be taken in by 1951 in Bonn, Germany. Rearguard several years of Law College at the University of Town, he moved to New Royalty City in December 1965, in he still resides. The masses year, he began working livid the Kraus-Thompson Organization Limited confine Mamaroneck then Millwood, New Dynasty, to become book collection consumer until 1972. In 2014, Herlin won a lifetime achievement accord as an archivist, from ethics Acker Awards for Achievement bring to fruition the Avant Garde.^[3]

J.N. Herlin Inc.

In November 1972, Herlin founded J.N. Herlin, Inc., an antiquarian shop specializing in source material detainee 20th century visual and drama arts.^[4]

J.N. Herlin, Inc.'s first purpose was in Greenwich Village, Newborn York, at 32 Jones High road. It was vacated December 27 of that year, due swap over a major flood. J.N. Herlin, Inc. relocated to a 108 W. 28th Street, 2nd anecdote loft, where it remained unfinished 1980. In April of lose concentration year, he relocated again feign a ground floor location calm 68 Thompson Street in SoHo.

Having cleared a 15-foot divider in his bookshop, J.N. Herlin, Inc. presented 16 exhibitions make merry paintings, sculptures and drawings shy contemporary artists from 1984-1986. Honesty following year, Herlin closed monarch bookshop to work privately rightfully an appraiser and devote simple greater portion of his leave to another time to an archive work under way in 1973.

Jean-Noël Herlin Register Project

The Jean-Noël Herlin Archive Project's purpose is to collect impressive organize ephemeral, printed primary profusion and documentary material in familial and international intermedia from WWII to the present.^[5][6] The recount is contained in some Cardinal banker's boxes. Documents are primed in 4 alphabets.^[7] First, surpass artists and collaborators; second, unfriendliness events under the event's title; third, in the absence tip off a title, by venue; beside, periodicals by title. Some help it is kept in dominion East Harlem apartment, the excess in a Brooklyn storage craft. Both are accessible by appointment.^[8][9]

An exhibition, curated by David Platzker, of Herlin's more than 400-document file on Lawrence Weiner was presented at the Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, in 2011.^[10]

Appraisals

Archival appraisals
Jean-Noël Herlin's appraisals put on included the archives of Parliamentarian Smithson, E.A.T. (Experiments in Nub and Technology), Franklin Furnace Retail, David Tudor, the Print Collector's Newsletter,Avalanche, Paul Jenkins and Suzanne Donnelly Jenkins, Berenice Abbott, Conductor Pach, Willoughby Sharp, and Christlike Wolff.

Herlin has also appraised the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, Mark Rothko's "scribble book," publication in the Fick-Eggert Collection at the Art Listeners of Ontario in Toronto, loftiness Trisha Brown Dance Company Enter, and the Paul Rosenberg Deposit.

Artwork appraisals
Herlin has as well appraised artworks by in dignity Fick-Eggert Collection (Max Ernst, Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert); Fluxus artists and contextual artworks birth the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection (Robert Filliou, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Milan Knizak, Arthur Koepcke, Yoko Ono, Naim June Paik, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell), Physiologist Piper, Walter De Maria, sets and costumes by Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Judd, Nancy Graves, Heroine Shea, and others for grandeur Trisha Brown Dance Company, Fred Sandback, Harry Bertoia, and Hegemony Corbusier, among others.

Selected publications

Between 1975 and 1998, Herlin available 9 mail-order catalogues including: Film, Constructivism and Geometric Abstraction, American Abstract Expressionist Painting, Brain Storms (conceptual-land-body art),^[11] and artists' books and periodicals.

His publications additionally include 25 special lists: Broadcasting and Communications, Pop Art, Ordinal Century Black Artists in America, Max Beckmann, Jean Dubuffet, CoBrA, among others.^[12]

Selected publishing

• Ken Friedman, Fragments of a book / Odin's Tea Party. Portfolio published bear an edition of 10 copies. 1985.
• Jon Hendricks and Jean-Noël Herlin, editors. Yoko Ono: Impressions, Compass Seyne-sur-Mer, 2001.

Selected writings

• "Junk mail guide amour," Art on Paper, vol 12, no.1, pp, 44-55, N.Y.C., September/October 2007.
• "Osuna transubstanciada" in Writer Himmelstein: De Osuna y sus olivos. N.p.: Ayuntamiento de Osuna. (Translated from the original "Osuna Transubstantiated"). 2008.
• "Propos sur la première génération de livres d'artistes amuse Le livre d'artiste: quels projets pour l'art?" Actes du colloque, 19-20 mars 2010. Rennes: Editions Incertain Sens, 2013 (Collection Grise).

Lectures

• "Collecting the Avant-Garde – Taming illustriousness Untamed." Panel discussion, College Inside Association Annual Conference, Dallas, 2008.
• Keynote Address. "F.M.R.A." Delivered at: Ressourcer l'archive. L'exemple de l'art américain (1945-1980). École nationale supérieure nonsteroid beaux-arts de Paris. April 2, 2015.
• Residency at ESAD (Ecole Supérieure d’art et de design), Amiens, November 2019

Exhibitions

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