UQ Art Museum Public Programs: Michael Fried on Joseph Marioni.
Event Details
- Date:
- Monday, 03 June 2013
- Time:
- 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- UQ Location:
- James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre (St Lucia)
- URL:
- http://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Gillian Ridsdale
- Phone:
- 67793
- Email:
- g.ridsdale@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- The University of Queensland Art Museum
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Please join visiting international scholar Professor Michael Fried in a discussion on the work of artist Joseph Marioni, with A/Prof Rex Butler, Reader in Art History at The University of Queensland.
Michael Fried is a poet, art historian, art critic and literary critic. He is Professor, J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in the Humanities (secondary appointment: Department of the History of Art) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He has written extensively about an array of subjects, spanning abstract painting and sculpture since World War II to French painting and art criticism from the mid-eighteenth century to the advent of Edouard Manet (and beyond). He has also written about the writers and artists Charles Baudelaire, Joseph Conrad, Gustave Caillebotte, Roger Fry, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Jeff Wall, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Demand, and other contemporary 'art' photographers.
Fried has also written on Caravaggio and the transformation of Italian painting circa 1600, and most recently about the contemporary artists Anri Sala, Charles Ray, Joseph Marioni, and Douglas Gordon. His recent publications include 'Flaubert's 'Gueuloir': On Madame Bovary and Salammbô'.
Presented by The University of Queensland Art Museum in partnership with The Power Institute of The University of Sydney.
Free. All welcome.
Bookings essential as numbers are limited
RSVP Thursday 30 May
Refreshments served after the discussion
artmuseum@uq.edu.au 07 3365 3046
Curated by Rex Butler, the exhibition 'Marioni/MacPherson' continues until 23 June. Find out more http://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au
Directions to UQ
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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