# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-popper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:04:00.087Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-popper"
name: "Frank Popper"
slug: "frank-popper"
description: "Frank Popper was a Czech-born French-British historian of art and technology and Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the Science of Art at the University of Paris VIII. He was decorated with the medal of the Légion d'honneur by the French Government. He is author of the books Origins and Development of Kinetic Art, Art, Action, and Participation, Art of the Electronic Age and From Technological to Virtual Art."
tagline: "French art historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Popper_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1918-04-17"
deathDate: "2020-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.69
  momentum:             2.396313364055299
  historical:           7.009684
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "فرانك بوبر"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Popper"
    title: "Frank Popper"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Popper"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Popper"
    title: "Frank Popper"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Popper"
    title: "Frank Popper"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Popper"
    title: "Frank Popper"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump