Serge Guilbaut is a leading Marxist art historian of postwar art in the United States and Europe. He is Professor Emeritus of art history at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Guilbaut’s book How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom and the Cold War, first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1983, remains one of the most important and canonical texts on 20th century art.
Stephen Houston, Dupee Family Professor, Brown University, will speak on Maya writing, a hieroglyphic system like ancient Egyptian, that existed at the interface between text and image. His talk explores the carried navigations in that zone of turbulence, ranging from aesthetic judgements to the conviction that writing might literally live, its shapes and spellings erupting into active bodies. At times playful, often serious-minded, Maya writing offers enduring insights into the cultural and philosophical implications of graphic representation.
Please join us one week from today, on Wednesday 11 October at 4:30pm in CWAC 156, for the first meeting of the Research in Art and Visual Evidence (RAVE) workshop for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Niall Atkinson will co-curate the U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. The US Department of State has chosen The University of Chicago and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago to serve as co-commissioners for the Pavilion. Entitled Dimensions of Citizenship, the exhibition will present a view of contemporary architectural practices through the lens of legal, political, economic and societal affiliations in the practice of citizenship today.
Persis Berlekamp discusses with UChicago News the motif of the eclipse dragon in the 12th and 13th centuries and what it can tell us about what scientists at the time knew about the lunar eclipse.
It was announced this week, at the ACASA Triennial conference in Ghana that Professor Fromont's The Art of Conversion won "The Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award” that “honors publications for excellence in scholarship on the arts of Africa and the African Diaspora.”
Congratulations to Prof. Wu Hung for being named the College Art Association's 2018 Distinguished Scholar at next year's CAA Annual Conference being held at the LA Convention Center in February. To register for the conference or for more information, visit the CAA website.
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A discussion on Urban planning with Will Cohen an Urban Planner with UTile architecture in Boston and Eric Hanss the Pedestrian Program Project Manager.
As a Fluxus artist, Vostell worked with a range of media, fitting performance installations with a combination of sculptural, painterly, photographic, and print-based processes, and common, everyday objects. Prior to his turn to creating “event-sculptures” in 1969, the materials Vostell used were often exhausted during the duration of the performance, discarded or else left in fragments called “happening fallouts” and accompanied by photographic documentation, including 16mm film and video.
Experimentation with industrial materials and technology distinguishes many 20th and 21st century avant-garde practices. Concrete Traffic’s combination of industrial materials and technical components reinforces the need for further scientific analysis and information exchange between the fine and applied arts, industry and science, as well as between the professionals who conserve industrial materials and consumer technologies in diverse contexts.