"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists' Visions, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Malibu, from April 18 to September 2, 2018."

Donatien Grau holds doctoral degrees in comparative literature from the Université Paris-Sorbonne and in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He is a writer, curator, and cultural critic and has published widely on contemporary art.