October 20, 2011
All Day
100 Mendenhall Laboratory
Event Host: Department of History of Art
Alexander Nagel, Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University gives a lecture entitled "Medieval 1960s."
The year 1962 saw the publication of major and highly influential statements on contemporary art and culture by Umberto Eco, Leo Steinberg, and Marshall McLuhan. Besides having a common hero in James Joyce, these thinkers shared a sustained scholarly interest in medieval and Renaissance art and culture, a training that in fact equipped them to respond with extraordinary acuity to the contemporary developments. Their interventions sensitize us to a “medieval strain” in 1960s art from Klein and Warhol to Flavin and Smithson.
