Presented by The IHC Idee Levitan Endowed Lecture Series
5
P.M. / November 15 / Free
Mary Craig Auditorium
1130 State Stree, Santa Barbara
The broad theme of the talk concerns an artist responding to
more or less certain
knowledge of impending mortality, coping with the physical limitations
of illness
alongside the urge to complete and reflect upon one's own legacy.
Between 1968 and 1971, one artist of advanced age and long accomplishment,
Rothko, and another still in her youth and just discovering
her original project, Hesse, simultaneously underwent this experience,
which few of us can imagine from the inside. The last works
of each display uncanny parallels and correspondences to those
of the other. Are these of more than accidental and personal
significance? The talk will offer some hypotheses as to their
meaning.
Crow
earned his B.A. at Pomona College in Claremont, graduating
Magna cum laude in 1969, and went on to complete his Ph.D.
in the History of Art at the University of California, Los
Angeles in 1978. He has served as a member of the Visiting
Committee, an international advisory group of scholars, for
the Getty Research Institute since 1997 and in 1999 was named
a visiting Distinguished Getty Scholar. Former chair of the
Yale University Department of the History of Art, where he
was also Robert Lehman Professor of the History of Art, Crow
is internationally recognized as one of the most influential
art historians working in academia today. Since 1977 he has
held teaching positions at California Institute of the Arts,
University of Chicago, Princeton University, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, and University of Sussex, England. He
was appointed as Director of the Getty Research Institute
in 2000.
Crow
is a prolific art historian trained in Modern European and
American art. His principal teaching and research interests
are 18th-Century French art and cultural history; later 20th-century
avant-garde; historiography of art; and the interchange between
elite and vernacular art forms. Recent publications include
The Intelligence of Art (University of North Carolina
Press, 1999); "Modern Art in the Common Culture"
(Yale University Press, 1996); The Rise of the Sixties:
American and European Art in the Era of Dissent (Harry
N. Abrams, Inc., 1996); Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary
France (Yale University Press, 1995); Painters and
Public Life in 18th Century Paris (Yale University Press,
1985). Since 1993 he is also a contributing editor of Art
Forum.
This
event is cosponsored by the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities
Center and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
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