The Class of 2020Lectures inthe Historyof Art

INSCRIBING AND DELIMITING SPACES

Emily Perlmutter KamenSPIRAL THOUGHT:Polychronic Histories in Fremont Landscapes

Helman Alejandro Sosa TemplosMURALES EFÍMEROS:A Personal Understanding of Walls

Isabel Casso SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW:Gala Porras-Kim’s Work of Translation and Preparation

HISTORIES OF THE BODY

Jonathan OddenSHE REPRESENTS!Legible Identities in the Work of Jeanne Mammen

Mallory Cohen“INEFFACEABLE WOUNDS:”Considering Colonial Trauma through Kader Attia’s Open Your Eyes

Sinclair SpratleyUNBELIEVABLE, VIOLENT, AND BEAUTIFUL THINGS:Alvin Baltrop’s Pier Photographs

ORIGINS AND ENDS OF THE EARTH

John DamstraRUSKIN’S ROCKS:Stones and Spirituality in Victorian Britain

Emma Nell JacobsEXILE AND EXEMPLAR:Clyfford Still in the Atomic Age

Andrew KensettTHE VOLCANO AND THE CELL:Two Models of Animacy in the Work of Edward Steichen

ANIMALITY AND POSTHUMANISM

Cole GruberTHREE MILLION YEARS OF ART?:From the Manuport to the Readymade

Savannah MarquardtOF GODS AND GOATS:The Prehistory of Greek Sacrifice

Elyse Dianne MackIMAGINING DRAGONS:A New Perspective on Animal-Human Rendering

MAKING AND MATERIALS

Emily MadrigalREVERSE PYGMALIONS:Plaster in Édouard Dantan’s Atelier Paintings

Nidhi GandhiBODILY ENCOUNTERS AND BORDER SPACES in Reena Saina Kallat’s Verso-Recto-Recto-Verso

Eliza Woods HarrisonREFABRICATING, REFIGURING:Troy Michie’s Queer Collages

Watch the Lectures ongradart.williams.edu

June 12 to July 13