RAVE: Sam Lee
“Art and Artifice: Fried, Adorno, Cavell and the Case of Animated Statues”
Sam Lee (University of Chicago, PhD Student, Social Thought)
Archives in Translation
Rebecca Kosick will discuss archives and translation as both methods and outcomes of academic research. She will address her experiences working with personal and institutional archives, reflecting on practicalities (such as permissions and record-keeping) as well as bigger questions about how translation and archival work can shape critical writing. Kosick is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Poetry and Poetics and Co-Director of the Bristol Poetry Institute at the University of Bristol (UK).
Uncanny Provenance: Art History and its Double
Professor Lynn Rother
Unpacking Provenance: Thinking & Writing Object Histories
Unpacking Provenance: Thinking & Writing Object Histories
February 19 10am-5pm, and 20th, 9-6pm, Neubauer Collegium Seminar Room
Prof. Lynn Rother with Dr. Max Koss, Leuphana Universität
Rebecca Kosick: "The Secret Art of Poetry: Hélio Oiticica"
In 1968, the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica wrote to fellow neoconcrete artist Lygia Clark about the "participatory relation" in his aesthetic practice. He describes it as a devouring, libidinal fury, where the spectator steps out of their role as passive observer, interacts with the work of art, and experiences sensations that can never be known to the artist. Here, Oiticica subtly references what is perhaps Brazil's most famous modernist metaphor—that of Oswald de Andrade's cannibal.
Cultivating Your Citational Practice Workshop
Cultivating Your Citational Practice: An Introduction to Practical and Ethical Considerations for Images and More
Monday January 22 from 4:30–5:50pm
CWAC 156 and Zoom
Link to register (registration required)
Art History Faculty W.J.T. Mitchell Receives CAA Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award
Awards for Distinction jury has named Art History faculty W.J.T. Mitchell as the recipient of the 2024 CAA Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art.
Collegiate Assistant Professor in Architectural History Position Opening
Collegiate Assistant Professor of Architectural History The Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago is now accepting applications from historians of architecture or the built environment for a four-year, non-renewable, postgraduate appointment as a Collegiate Assistant Professor, who will teach in the Department of Art History. Collegiate Assistant Professors are members of the College Faculty whose primary responsibility is to teach in the Core Curriculum, the College's general education program.
Art History faculty Tina Post Receives ASAP Best Book Prize for 'Deadpan'
Asst. Prof. Tina Post became intrigued with how the gesture of expressionlessness operated in the 20th-century Black performances across literature, visual and performance art, film, theater, dance, the boxing ring and everyday life. For her original insights, she recently received the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Best Book Prize for her first book, “Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression” (2023).
Jessica Stockholder Digital Archive Available on LUNA
The Visual Resources Center (VRC) is excited to announce the digital archive of Jessica Stockholder, now available to the UChicago community and beyond on the VRC’s digital collections platform, LUNA. The Jessica Stockholder Archive is the first LUNA collection dedicated to a near-comprehensive overview of the work of a single artist.