{"id":2759,"date":"2015-10-20T14:36:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2015-10-20T14:36:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:36:57","slug":"use-your-illusion-barbara-kastens-architectural-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=2759","title":{"rendered":"Use Your Illusion: Barbara Kasten’s ‘Architectural Sites’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"3e0ccde9-950c-4c98-bca4-acd68912ec63\"<\/a>Alex Kitnick will give a talk:<\/strong>
\n “Use Your Illusion: Barbara Kasten’s ‘Architectural Sites'”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thursday, October 22nd, 6:00 pm
\nInternational Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago
\nReception at the Graham Foundation<\/p>\n

In conjunction with our new exhibition\u00a0Barbara Kasten: Stages<\/i>, art historian and critic Alex Kitnick will explore the critical stakes of Barbara Kasten\u2019s photographic series from the 1980s that artfully staged important works of American architecture, including Arata Isozaki\u2019s Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Richard Meier\u2019s High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Created at the height of postmodern theory, Kasten’s Architectural Sites<\/i>\u00a0submits iconic buildings to distorting angles and colored lights, thus transforming already vertiginous structures into truly illusory spaces. Kitnick argues that these photographs offer a unique form of criticism that seek to heighten\u2014rather than deconstruct\u2014the effects of an emerging Postmodernism, and that these effects that are increasingly familiar today<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Alex Kitnick<\/b>\u00a0teaches at Bard College, where he was recently appointed the Brant Fellow in Contemporary Arts. In 2010 he received his PhD\u00a0from the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. From 2011 to 2012 he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Kitnick’s work frequently focuses on the intersection of art and architecture. He has edited numerous volumes including a collection of John McHale\u2019s writings,\u00a0The Expendable Reader: Articles on Art, Architecture, Design, and Media, 1951-1979<\/i>, which was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation, and\u00a0October<\/i>\u00a0136 on New Brutalism. He is a frequent contributor to\u00a0Artforum<\/i>,\u00a0October<\/i>, and\u00a0Texte zur Kunst,\u00a0<\/i>among other publications.
\nRelated Grant:\u00a02011 Individual Grant to Alex Kitnick for the publication \u201cThe Expendable Reader: John McHale on Art, Architecture, Design, and Media, 1951-1979″ (Sourcebook Series, GSAPP Books, 2011).<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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