Date:
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“Pollock and Politics: The International Context of the Drip Paintings"
Please note: This event has been cancelled.
Speaker:
Luke Menand, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English, Harvard University.
Contact:
Panagiotis Roilos
roilos@fas.harvard.edu
Chair:
Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty Associate. George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies; Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of the Classics, Harvard University.
Co-Chair:
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Department of Anthropology, and the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University.
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.
