Art History Department Chair and Professor George Baker will be delivering a lecture and sharing passages from his latest book at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas on Friday, November 1. His talk, entitled “Drawing According to Tacita Dean”, will respond to and open up questions around the Tacita Dean: Blind Folly exhibition currently on display.
Blind Folly is the first major museum survey in the United States of work by British European visual artist Tacita Dean (b. 1965). The exhibition, organized in close collaboration with Dean, spotlights her career-defining approach to creating art through unmediated and chance-based drawing processes across a variety of mediums, from film to printmaking.
Professor Baker’s book, “Lateness and Longing: On the Afterlife of Photography”, examines the fate of photography and film in contemporary art in relationship to the work of four artists: Moyra Davey, Zoe Leonard, Sharon Lockhart, and Tacita Dean.
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