A philosopher specialized in aesthetics and art history, Hubert Damisch (1928-2017) is known for his essays on perspective, the theory of painting, and architecture.
French artist Jean Dubuffet and French art historian Hubert Damisch shared a long friendship between 1961—the year Damisch published his first essay on Dubuffet—and 1985—when the latter died. Entrée en matière gathers together all the texts written by Damisch on Dubuffet as well as a selection of their correspondence.
