Professor Catherine M. Soussloff Discusses Foucault on Painting
In Foucault and Painting (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), Professor Catherine M. Soussloff discusses an area of Foucault’s development that has remained largely overlooked: his engagement with painting. Indeed Foucault, we learn, described himself as a painter. In a recent conversation with Professor Kirstin L. Ellsworth (Indiana University), Soussloff sheds light on this largely neglected aspect […]
Geoffrey Smedley (1927–2018)
We are saddened to hear of the sudden passing of Geoffrey Smedley last week on Gambier Island. Smedley was a professor at the University of British Columbia in the Fine Arts department from 1978 to 1992. Born in London, England; he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College in London. He first […]
AHVA Welcomes Professor Althea Thauberger
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is pleased to announce that Althea Thauberger will be joining the department as assistant professor of visual art effective July 1, 2018. Thauberger has an international exhibition record and is making a contribution to the field of collaborative social documentary in a global context. Thauberger’s projects […]
Catherine M. Soussloff Discusses Her Work in the Foucault Archive at the BnF
“Unexpectedly and as it turned out, fortuitously, Foucault continued to occupy me …” Catherine M. Soussloff’s Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) is now available in stores and online! While Professor Soussloff was completing final edits on the book last year, she made some discoveries in the Foucault archive at the Bibliothèque Nationale de […]
Dana Claxton Shortlisted for bpNichol Chapbook Award
Congratulations to Professor Dana Claxton on the nomination of her chapbook The Patient Storm (above/ground press) for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. We look forward to announcement of the winner on November 18! The prize, awarded annually since 1985, goes to the author of the best poetry chapbook—in the estimation of the judges—published in Canada in […]
Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting – forthcoming in November 2017 from University of Minnesota Press
Congratulations to Professor Catherine M. Soussloff on the forthcoming release of her new book, Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press), a timely exploration of Foucault’s art historical and philosophical engagement with painting as knowledge. Michel Foucault had been concerned about painting and the meaning of the image from his earliest publications, yet this aspect […]
Professor Jaleh Mansoor featured in TEXTE ZUR KUNST
“The New New Left,” the theme of this issue, is not entirely “new new” as it indeed shares some concerns with the old anti-capitalist Left—namely, an insistence on a theoretical analysis of capitalism and the undue price many in such a system pay. But as the traditional discourses and strategies of the Left (workerism, identity […]
2017 Lind Prize Nominees from AHVA
Presentation House Gallery has just announced the shortlist for the second annual Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize. Congratulations to AHVA MFA student Brian Lye and BFA Natasha Habedus! Brian Lye Shitty Magician #3 (still) 2016, one minute, HD, silent Be sure to check out the Lind Prize exhibition at Presentation House Gallery, April […]
First Book by Professor Jaleh Mansoor: Marshall Plan Modernism
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory congratulates Professor Jaleh Mansoor on the publication of her first book, Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia (Duke University Press). The book expands upon ideas Mansoor first explored in her PhD dissertation at Columbia University, under the guidance of Benjamin Buchloh […]
Release of Foucault on the Arts and Letters, Catherine M. Soussloff, ed.
Congratulations to Professor Catherine M. Soussloff on the publication of her new book, Foucault on the Arts and Letters, a collection of twelve essays addressing Foucault’s thought and its impact on thinking about the visual arts, literature, and aesthetic discourse in the twenty-first century. The edited volume grew out of a conference jointly sponsored by […]