Research Seminar - Art after Trump

Art after Trump

Presented by Eleanor Heartney (Art in America Magazine)

Date: 23 March, 2018
Time: 3pm-4pm
Location: UQ Art Museum, James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre (Building 11)

Abstract:

In this informal talk Eleanor will reflect on the impact of the Trump administration on the arts and how cultural expression is beginning to frame this political regime. Discussion is encouraged and will be of particular interest to scholars and students working in the fields of art history, political science, international relations, journalism, writing, editing and publishing, gender studies and arts policy. 

Presenter:

Eleanor Heartney is a contributing editor to the internationally renown Art in America magazine. Her publications include Art and Today, Postmodernism, and Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art. She is a co-author of After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art and The Reckoning: Women Artists in the New Millennium. Heartney is a past President of AICA-USA, the American section of the International Art Critics Association.Her awards include the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award and the French government 's Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.