Home About the Foundation Calendar Public Programs Affiliations Research and Publications





Introducing Marjorie Welish

Marjorie Welish, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Aaron Levy

[Multimedia content blocked]

Listen to a 5 minute recording, or download the file



Event Date: Friday, April 05, 2002
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania

Marjorie Welish (Photo by Star Black)

| More



The publication "Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish" resulted from this conference at the University of Pennsylvania on the work of celebrated poet, critic, and painter Marjorie Welish. It features contributions by Kenneth Baker, Norma Cole, Carla Harryman, Gans & Jelacic Architecture and Design, Olivier Gourvil, Ron Janssen, Joseph Masheck, Bob Perelman, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Frances Richard, Osvaldo Romberg, Keith Tuma, Chris Tysh, and Thomas Zummer, along with new work by Marjorie Welish.

Purchase "Of the Diagram" online today

Listen online to audio recordings from this conference
Or browse all Slought Foundation programs featuring Marjorie Welish


Marjorie Welish, a poet, painter and art critic, has contributed to several volumes on contemporary art, including Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, and Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics. She is the author of The Annotated "Here" and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2000) and Word Group (forthcoming 2004). Welish is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, the International Studio Program, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. She is the author of Signifying Art: Essays on Art After 1960 (Cambridge University Press, 1999). In April 2002, Slought Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania produced a conference on her art and writing, the proceedings of which became Of the Diagram: The work of Marjorie Welish (Slought Books, 2003). he exhibits her paintings with Baumgartner Gallery in New York.

Jean-Michel Rabaté is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992 and a Senior Curator at Slought Foundation. He has authored or edited twenty books on James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Thomas Bernhard, Modernism, psychoanalysis and literary theory.

Aaron Levy is the Executive Director of and a Senior Curator at Slought Foundation, and he lectures in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He has organized around 200 exhibitions and events on contemporary art and theory, and has edited a series of publications on curatorial and archival practice, conceptual art, human rights, poetics, and Modernism.

Organized by Aaron Levy, Jean-Michel Rabaté


Creative Commons License
Media files on the Slought.org website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.

MLA Style: Marjorie Welish, et al. "Introducing Marjorie Welish." Slought Foundation Online Content. [05 April 2002; Accessed 17 May 2012]. <http://slought.org/content/11008/>.






General Info | Press Room | Terms of Use

| More