In this talk, Suzanne Hudson will argue for a reconsideration of contemporary abstraction by means of a genealogy of aleatory but still intended form that extends from process-based painting at mid-
century.
Seminar Room 1, University of Vienna, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Hof 9,
Door 9.2, 1090, Wien, corner of Garnisongasse and Beethovengasse
CV: Suzanne Hudson is Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Robert Ryman: Used Paint (MIT Press, 2009; 2011) and Painting Now (Thames & Hudson, 2015) and the co-editor of Contemporary Art: 1989?Present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
The event is organized and co-sponsored by the Kunsthistorische Gesellschaft, Noit Banai (Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien) and Sabeth Buchmann (Institut für Kunst- and Kulturwisseschaften, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien).