Contributors

Yves Béhar

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Yves Béhar, Founder and CEO of fuseproject, is a designer and entrepreneur who believes that integrated product, brand and experience design are the cornerstones of any business. Béhar has pioneered design as a force for positive social and environmental change. His humanitarian work includes the One Laptop Per Child and See Better to Learn Better, which has distributed 6 million free corrective eyeglasses to schoolchildren in Mexico for the last 10 years. He received the INDEX Award for these projects, making him the only designer to have received the award twice. Yves has also been at the forefront of entrepreneurial venture design, co-founding FORME Life, August, and Canopy, as well as partnering with numerous start-ups such as the Happiest Baby Snoo, Uber, Cobalt, Desktop Metal, Sweetgreen and many others. Other notable collaborations with renowned partners such as Herman Miller, Movado, Samsung, Puma, Issey Miyake, Prada, SodaStream, Nivea, The Ocean Cleanup and many others have also received international acclaim.

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Benoy K. Behl

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Benoy K. Behl is an art historian, filmmaker, and photographer known for his tireless and prolific output of work over the past forty-six years. He has taken over 53,000 photographs of Asian monuments and art heritage and made 145 documentaries on art and culture.

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Doris Behrens-Abouseif

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Doris Behrens-Abouseif is Professor Emerita at SOAS, University of London, and previously Nasser D. Khalili Chair of Islamic Art and Archaeology at SOAS.

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Alice Bell

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Alice Bell works on campaigns for climate change awareness as director of communications at the 10:10. She has also worked as a journalist, writing for the Guardian, Observer, and Times.

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Julian Bell

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Julian Bell is a writer and artist. He currently teaches at the Royal Drawing School, London, and writes about art for journals, including the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including What Is Painting? and Mirror of the World: A New History of Art.

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Véronique Belloir

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Véronique Belloir is Curator at the Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris.

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Barbara Bemelmans

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Barbara Bemelmans is the daughter of Ludwig Bemelmans and manager of his estate.

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Ludwig Bemelmans

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Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962) moved from Italy to the United States in 1914 and became an illustrator for the New Yorker, Vogue, and other magazines. His book Madeline was published in 1939, and its sequel, Madeline’s Rescue, followed thirteen years later, winning the Caldecott Medal. His life and work are the subject of Ludwig Bemelmans, the critically praised title in the Illustrators series.

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Fred Benaglia

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Fred Benaglia has lived and worked in Paris for over twenty years, first as an artistic director at a communications agency, and now as the artistic director overseeing children's magazines at Bayard Presse. He has written and illustrated numerous children's books.

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Michael Benson

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Michael Benson is a journalist, filmmaker, and artist. His work has been published in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and the Nation.

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Janetta Rebold Benton

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Janetta Rebold Benton is the Distinguished Professor of Art History at Pace University, New York, and the author of several books and articles on art including How to Understand Art in the Art Essentials series. She is the recipient of two Fulbright Scholar Awards as visiting professor to China and Russia, respectively, and lectures at the Smithsonian Institution, 92nd Street Y, and previously at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Michael J. Benton

University of Bristol

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Michael J. Benton OBE is head of the world-leading Palaeobiology Research Group at the University of Bristol. He has written more than fifty books, including Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, Dinosaurs Rediscovered, and When Life Nearly Died.

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Pierre Bergé

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Pierre Bergé was the partner of Yves Saint Laurent and is the co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent Couture House.

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Susan Bergh

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Susan E. Bergh is Curator of Pre-Columbian and Native North American Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art.

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Patricia G. Berman

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Patricia G. Berman is the Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg professor of art at Wellesley College.

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Joanne Berry

University of Swansea

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Joanne Berry is a Roman historian and archaeologist and associate professor of classics at Swansea University. She is the author or coauthor of many books, including The Complete Pompeii and The Complete Roman Legions.

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