“Art and Objecthood”: A Lecture
<p>Stephen Melville is Professor of History of Art at the Ohio State University and has published widely on contemporary art as well as on issues in contemporary theory and historiography. With Philip Armstrong and Laura Lisbon he curated the major exhibition of contemporary painting <i>As Painting: Division and Displacement</i> (Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 2001). His publications include <i>As Painting: Division And Displacement</i> (exhibition catalogue, MIT Press 2001), and <i>Seams: Art As A Philosophical Context</i> (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1996). He is currently completing a book on Hegel and contemporary art.</p> <p>In 2007, Stephen Melville was invited to give a lecture on Michael Fried’s seminal essay “Art and Objecthood” at MACBA in the context of the course <i>Art, Theatre and its Double</i>.</p>
Authors: Stephen Melville
Proofreader: Keith Patrick
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ISSN: 18865259