Please join Professor Catherine Soussloff at the Morri s and Helen Belkin Art Gallery for the launch of her new book\, Foucaul t on Painting (University of Minnesota Press).
This event i s free and open to the public.
Soussloff’s book is a timely ex ploration of Foucault’s art historical and philosophical engagement with pa inting as knowledge. In Foucault on Painting\, Soussloff argues th at Foucault’s sustained engagement with European art history critically add resses present concerns about the mediated nature of the image in the digit al age. She explores the meaning of painting for Foucault’s philosophy\, an d for contemporary art theory\, proposing a new relevance for a Foucauldian view of ethics and the pleasures and predicaments of contemporary existenc e.
Catherine M. Soussloff is Professor of Art History\, Visual Art an d 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 Absolu te Artist (1997)\, Jewish Identity in Modern Art History (199 9)\, and Editing the Image (2008).
Professor Soussloff will be doing a short reading and copies will be available to purchase.
Af terwards\, please stay for the opening of Postscript< /em>\, an exhibition of work by the 2018 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s Master of Fine Arts program being presented at the Morr is and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.
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