Susan Buck-Morss: Jan 29

Susan Buck-Morss: Visual Empire
Thursday, January 29, 7pm
SVA, Visual Arts Theater
333 West 23 Street

Writer and educator Susan Buck-Morss will discuss how ideas of empire and sovereignty are reflected in visual imagery. She is a professor at Cornell University and the author of numerous books including The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project and Francis Alys: When Faith Can Move Mountains. Her most recent book is Hegel, Haiti and Universal History (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008). Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department. Free and open to the public

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