Please join Professor Catherine Soussloff at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery for the launch of her new book, Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press).
This event is free and open to the public.
Soussloff’s book is a timely exploration of Foucault’s art historical and philosophical engagement with painting as knowledge. In Foucault on Painting, Soussloff argues that Foucault’s sustained engagement with European art history critically addresses present concerns about the mediated nature of the image in the digital age. She explores the meaning of painting for Foucault’s philosophy, and for contemporary art theory, proposing a new relevance for a Foucauldian view of ethics and the pleasures and predicaments of contemporary existence.
Catherine M. Soussloff is Professor of Art History, Visual Art and Theory and an Associate at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. Her publications include editor of Foucault on the Arts and Letters (2016) and author of The Subject in Art (2006), The Absolute Artist (1997), Jewish Identity in Modern Art History (1999), and Editing the Image (2008).
Professor Soussloff will be doing a short reading and copies will be available to purchase.
Afterwards, please stay for the opening of Postscript, an exhibition of work by the 2018 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s Master of Fine Arts program being presented at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.
