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Date(s) - 11/29/2018
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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de Young Museum
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MORE INFORMATION | $3 Members | $4 General. Cash only at the theater entrance. No reservations.
Location: Koret Auditorium
James Housefield is Associate Professor of Design History, Theory, and Criticism at UC Davis, whose research and teaching analyze art and design since the late eighteenth century. He is completing a monograph on the interaction of modern art, design, and science, tentatively titled, Playing with Earth and Sky: Popular Sciences of Astronomy and Geography and the Work of Marcel Duchamp.
Housefield’s research focuses on the interaction of art and design with each other and with the cultures of literature and science, particularly astronomy and geography. He is especially interested in the histories of exhibition design and modern cultures of immersive experience. He has contributed to several exhibition catalogues, and his scholarly writing on Duchamp, art, and geography, and related topics has appeared in The Geographical Review, Journal of North African Studies, Cultural Geographies, and multiple edited volumes. Housefield has taught courses integrating the history of art and design history since 2000. He was formerly a curator at the Austin Museum of Art, and Associate Professor of the History of Art and Design at Texas State University, where he held the title of the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities.
Image: Paul Gauguin, “Tahitian Woman with a Flower,” 1891. Oil on canvas, 27 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (70.5 x 46.5 cm). Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1828. Photograph by Ole Haupt, © Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen