Lindner Lecture Series: Mapping Art History and its Futures: Steven Nelson in Conversation with David Getsy
Speakers:
Steven Nelson, Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
David J. Getsy, Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History, University of Virginia
In this conversation, Steven Nelson and David Getsy will explore the practice, politics and poetics of writing art history. Drawing from his pioneering scholarship on African and African American art, Nelson will discuss his own practice of writing, which has crossed genres from autobiography to criticism, and shaped fields beyond art history, including architecture, urbanism, and film. For this occasion, Nelson will read passages from his latest two new manuscripts: “Structural Adjustment: Mapping, Geography, and the Visual Cultures of Blackness” and “On the Underground Railroad.”