WJT Mitchell: Dec 11

W.J.T. Mitchell: The Future of the Image
Thursday, December 11, 7pm
SVA, 209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater

Scholar and theorist of media, art and literature W.J.T. Mitchell will discuss the work of Jacques Ranciere, a contemporary French philosopher whose writings on the relationship between contemporary art and politics have garnered much attention in the art world. Mitchell is a well-known figure in the fields of visual culture and iconology, a professor of English and art history at the University of Chicago and the editor of the interdisciplinary journal Critical Inquiry. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department. Free and open to the public

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