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"Book Release for 'Of the Diagram'"
Marjorie Welish, Aaron Levy, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Joseph Masheck, Frances Richard, Osvaldo Romberg
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Event Date: Thursday, December 11, 2003
Location: Universal Concepts Unlimited (507 W. 24th St. NYC)
Slought Books Series
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Please join us for the release of "Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish" at Universal Concepts Unlimited, NYC on Thursday, December 11, 2003. Contributors to this volume include 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 celebrated poet, critic, and painter Marjorie Welish.
Purchase this book online!
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. Her selected criticism appears in Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 (Cambridge University Press, 1999). She is the author of The Annotated "Here" and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2000) and Word Group (forthcoming 2004). She exhibits her paintings with Baumgartner Gallery in New York. Audio recordings from a symposium at the University of Pennsylvania on Marjorie Welish's work, organized by Aaron Levy and Jean-Michel Rabaté, is available online: Slought.org/series/Welish/
Aaron Levy is Executive Director and Senior Curator of Slought Foundation. He has edited Searching for Romberg, on artist Osvaldo Romberg, Untitled (After Cinema), on photography and cinema, and, with Eduardo Cadava, Cities without Citizens (forthcoming).
Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992, has authored or edited twenty books on Modernism, Joyce, Pound, Beckett, Lacan, Derrida, psychoanalysis and literary theory.
Joseph Masheck studied art history under Meyer Schapiro, 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.
Frances Richard is nonfiction editor of the literary journal Fence; a member of the editorial team at Cabinet; and a frequent contributor to Artforum. She teaches at NYU and Barnard College.
Osvaldo Romberg has exhibited at the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna; Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Sudo Museum, Tokyo; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Jewish Museum, New York; and the XLI Venice Biennial, Israel Pavilion.
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This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of Universal Concepts Unlimited (UCU) for the release; we acknowledge financial support for the publication from the Pratt Faculty Development Fund, University of Pennsylvania, Chain Arts, Keith Tuma, Joseph Masheck, Jack and Bea Morton, and Larry and Toby Levy. Editorial support by Jen Kollar, Linda Petock, and Louis Cabri.
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