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DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art History and Communication Studies present
 s:\n\nProf. Rebecca Zorach \n\n“To come home sooner or later': Abstraction
  and Estrangement on the South Side of Chicago\n\nLocation: Arts W-215 (85
 3 Sherbrooke St W\, Montreal\, Quebec H3A 2A7)\n\nNo registration required
 . The talk will be followed by a Q&A session and reception.\n\nAbstract: I
 n Amanda Williams’s Color(ed) Theory project (2014-2016)\, the artist and 
 architect painted abandoned houses in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicag
 o in bright monochromes using a palette she imbued with community meaning.
  This talk takes Williams’s project and its ambiguities as a starting poin
 t to trace moments in the history of the intertwining of abstraction\, pol
 itics\, and the idea of house and home. On the South Side of Chicago\, in 
 the mid-twentieth century\, questions about aesthetics and politics often 
 turned around a notion of “home”—should home be seen as a space of complac
 ent comfort to be jarred with challenging aesthetic acts\, or one required
  for sheer survival?\n\nBio: Rebecca Zorach\, Mary Jane Crowe Professor in
  Art and Art History\, Department of Art History\, Weinberg College of Art
 s & Sciences. Rebecca Zorach teaches and writes on early modern European a
 rt (15th-17th century)\, contemporary activist art\, and art of the 1960s 
 and 1970s. Particular interests include print media\, feminist and queer t
 heory\, theory of representation\, African American artists\, and the mult
 iple intersections of art and politics. Her books include Blood\, Milk\, I
 nk\, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance (University of C
 hicago Press\, 2005)\; The Passionate Triangle (University of Chicago Pres
 s\, 2011)\; Gold: Nature and Culture with Michael W. Phillips\, Jr. (Reakt
 ion Books\, 2016)\; the edited volumes Embodied Utopias: Gender\, Social C
 hange\, and The Modern Metropolis (with Amy Bingaman and Lisa Shapiro Sand
 ers\, Routledge\, 2002)\, The Idol in the Age of Art (with Michael Cole\, 
 Routledge\, 2009)\, Art Against the Law (School of the Art Institute of Ch
 icago\, 2014)\, The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 19
 60s Chicago (with Abdul Alkalimat and Romi Crawford\, Northwestern Univers
 ity Press\, 2017)\, Ecologies\, Agents\, Terrains (with Christopher Heuer\
 , Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and Yale University Press\, 20
 18)\, and Art for People’s Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago\, 
 1965–1975 (Duke University Press\, 2019). \n\nImage caption: Amanda Willia
 ms\, Color(ed) Theory: Crown Royal Bag. Inkjet print\, 2016.\n
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SUMMARY:Fall 2022 Speaker Series: Prof. Rebecca Zorach
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