Re-Presenting the Body with John Paoletti April 29, 2009

Re-Presenting the Body
John Paoletti, Professor of Art History, Wesleyan University

From the moment the Cubist painters shattered the corporeal mass of the human body, representation of the human form has vexed visual artists, particularly after the Nazi and Fascist figural heroics during the second quarter of the twentieth century and the successes of Abstract Expressionism after 1947. These lectures look at how artists in the latter half of the twentieth century treated the human body as a vehicle for meaning, and how the use of sources from the popular media allowed an increasing politicization of that meaning.

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April 29
The Figure after 1975: The Body Politic with Andy Warhol and Eva Hesse