Professor Catherine Soussloff’s work on Michel Foucault continues following the publication of her book Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) with an article, “Painting for Fools,” which is forthcoming from the journal Theory, Culture and Society. The article explores Foucault’s work on the theme of the ship of fools in History of Madness, Bosch’s Ship of Fools painting in the Louvre, and a little-known monumental drawing by the writer and artist Pierre Klossowski on the theme. She has used the newly deposited manuscripts on Foucault at the Bibliothèque nationale and Klossowski’s theories on painting in a new interpretation of their understanding of madness.
Professor Soussloff’s work on Viennese art history and Jewish identity continues with a forthcoming essay “Puppets in Diaspora,” which examines the work of the linguist Andreas Tietze on the Turkish shadow theatre in light of the themes of emigration, phantasy, and history sedimented in these folk art artefacts from the Ottoman Empire.