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"Loos and Fine Art: Scandalous Beauty from the Anti-Artist of Architecture"

Joseph Masheck

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Event Date: Thursday, January 24, 2002
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
Theorizing Series | Organized by Aaron Levy

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003



Joseph Masheck studied art history under Meyer Schapiro at Columbia and proceeded to the doctorate under Rudolf Wittkower and Dorothea Nyberg. A former editor-in-chief of Artforum, (1977-80), he has taught at Columbia, where he was also a member of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and at Harvard and Hofstra. Masheck recently completed an M.Litt. in aesthetics at Trinity College Dublin, and is working on a cluster of essays on Adolf Loos.

Recent books and parts: Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction (Cambridge, 1993); Van Gogh 100 (ed.; Greenwood, 1996); centenary ed. of Arthur Wesley Dow's Composition (California, 1997); 'The Vital Skin: Riegl, the Maori and Loos,' in Richard Woodfield, ed., Framing Formalism: Riegl and the History of Art, Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture (G+B Arts International, 2001); Marcel Duchamp in Perspective (ed.; 1975), repr. (DaCapo, forthcoming). Recent articles: 'On a Crypto-Corbusianism in Breton's Nadja,' Annals of Scholarship, 13 (1999); 'A Pre-Bretonian Case of Automatic Drawing: Spare and Carter's "Automatic Drawing" (1916),' Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, no. 38 (Autumn 2000); 'Karel Teige: Functionalist and Then Some,' Art in America, December 2001.

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