Northwestern Events Calendar

Oct
3
2018

Lynne Cook - The Debt is Infinite: On Paul Chan and His Outliers

When: Wednesday, October 3, 2018
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM CT

Where: Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, 40 Arts Circle Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: Free and Open to All

Contact: Block Museum of Art   (847) 491-4000

Group: Block Museum of Art

Category: Fine Arts

Description:

Paul Chan’s landmark 2003 digital animation Happiness (finally) after 35,000 years of civilization draws on the themes and iconography of one of Chicago’s most celebrated self-taught artists, Henry Darger. Lynne Cooke, Senior Curator for Special Projects in Modern Art at the National Gallery in Washington, will situate Chan’s approach to Darger within a longer history of the changing relationship between modern and self-taught art, which she explored in her landmark exhibition Outliers and American Vanguard Art (touring to LACMA in November 2018). Exhibition co-curator Jim Hodge, Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Northwestern, will then reflect on these distinctions in an era when new media platforms have eroded the boundaries of what constitutes avant-garde and folk art. Block Media Arts Curator and exhibition co-curator Michael Metzger will join Cooke and Hodge to address the key themes of narrative and social transformation that bind Chan and Darger.

Presented by The Block Museum of Art in partnership with the Arts Club of Chicago.

 

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