[Hum_Calendar_Events] SIGNS OF BAD WEATHER: RASHEED ARAEEN AND POST-1968 POLITICAL ART IN BRITAIN

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UCLA DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
presents a lecture by


COURTNEY J. MARTIN
University of California, Berkeley

SIGNS OF BAD WEATHER: RASHEED ARAEEN AND POST-1968 POLITICAL ART IN BRITAIN

In the summer of 1977, British-Pakastani artist Rasheen Araeen, against the backdrop of Britain's decade-long civic turmoil, engaged in a new project that brought together his former minimalist sculpture practice with the burgeoning medium of live art. This lecture will situate Araeen's performance as an outgrowth of his conception of and problems with modernism, as well as one example of the engagement of art and radical politics in Britain after 1968.


THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010
5:00 PM
167 DODD HALL

 

Courtney J. Maritn is a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on  Doherty is Associate Professor of German and Art and Archeology at Princeton University.  Her research and teaching focuses on 20th-century British art, with special emphasis on post-colonial formations and practices since the 1960s.  


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