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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:CANCELLED: Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:<h2>“Pollock and Politics: The International Context of the Drip Paintings"</h2><p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Please note: This event has been cancelled.</strong></span></p><h3>Speaker:</h3><p><strong> Luke Menand,</strong><em> Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English, Harvard University. </em></p><h3>Contact:</h3><p><strong> Panagiotis Roilos</strong> <br>roilos@fas.harvard.edu</p><h3><!--break-->Chair:</h3><p><strong>Panagiotis Roilos,</strong> <em>Faculty Associate. </em>George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies; Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of the Classics, Harvard University.</p><h3>Co-Chair:</h3><p><strong>Dimitrios Yatromanolakis,</strong> <em>Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Department of Anthropology, and the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University.</em></p><p>The talk is a biographical and historical account of the development of Jackson Pollock as an abstract painter and the (intersecting) emergence of Clement Greenberg as an art critic and theorist, ca. 1939-1950. Luke Menand situates these in the context of international artistic and political movements - specifically, surrealism and Trotskyism.</p>
LOCATION:Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Plimpton Room (133)
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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