Thursday April 29, 2010 at 7 PM
TJ Clark

Picasso’s Guernica Revisited

T.J. Clark is Professor and George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair of Modern Art at the University of California, Berkeley. A renowned art historian, Clark’s highly influential, and sometimes controversial, books include The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006), Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999), and The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers (1984), among others. Clark’s many honors include election to the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellowship, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Getty Research Institute, as well as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2008 he delivered Picasso and Truth, a six-part lecture series for the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

This lecture will be held in Kane 220