The 2013 Critical Studies Symposium, Critical Perspectives on Visual Culture, is an evening-long program, in which each of the six participants from the Whitney Independent Study Critical Studies Program present a short paper on their current research. Two discussants respond to these papers.

Session I:  7–9 pm

• Rizvana Bradley
  The Aesthetics of Fabrication and Reproduction in the Art of Thornton Dial
• Angelique Szymanek
  Impossible Witnessing and Public Fantasy in the Work of Ana Mendieta
• Charlotte Ickes
  Isaac Julien’s Baltimore and the Spectacle of the Other ’70s

Discussant: Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Professor of History of Art, Director, Graduate Studies for Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University    

Session II:  9:30–11:30 pm

• Alison Dean
  The Mediation of Immediacy in the Work of Rineke Dijkstra and Nan Goldin
• Aline Guillermet
  This is not a face: The return to portraiture in the 1960s
• Geoffrey Wildanger
  A Function for the Studio?

Discussant: Alex Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History, Columbia University 

Admission is free. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

External Link »