Talking Bodies: Connections Across Disciplines: “Flesh Made Paint” @ Frist - April 4, 2009

Talking Bodies: Connections Across Disciplines: “Flesh Made Paint”
Saturday, April 4, 11:00 a.m.
Frist Center
Included with Gallery Admission, Members FREE

Portrait paintings offer us close encounters with the faces and bodies of their subjects. But because portraits are the product of prior face-to-face contact between artists and their sitters, they also make claims about the ways the intimate encounter of flesh with flesh can be represented in a painted image.

Gregg Horowitz, associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University, will examine the ways the transformation of fleshly encounters into paint has, over the course of the past century, become an increasingly less reliable means of leaving an identifiable record of the sitter. He will explore this topic by examining paintings by Willem de Kooning, Lucian Freud, and John Currin.

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