Dean’s Lecture | Thomas Demand’s Pacific Sun
Professor Michael Fried, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
In 2011 the German artist Thomas Demand made a two-minute stop-motion film called “Pacific Sun.”
Michael Fried will show this film and analyse it in detail, with a view to explaining what he regards as its particular significance in and for the present situation in the visual arts.
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 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. He is currently embarked on a short book on ‘Madame Bovary,’ to be called Flaubert’s Gueuloir.
Date: Wednesday, 5 June 2020 | 6.30pm
Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, The University of Melbourne, Parkville
Admission is free but bookings are required as seating is limited. Visit the webpage here to register.