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Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium - Pamela Lee

"Pattern Recognition, c. 1947"
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Porter D Building, Room 245
Porter College, UCSC
Presented by: 
Arts Division
Film and Digital Media
History of Art and Visual Culture

Pamela M. Lee is professor of Art History at Stanford University. Lee received her B.A from Yale University and her Ph.D in the Department of Fine Arts from Harvard University. She also studied at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Her area is the art, theory and criticism of late modernism and contemporary art. Among other journals, her work has appeared in October, Artforum, Assemblage, Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Les Cahiers du Musee national d'arte moderne, Grey Room, Parkett and Texte zur Kunst. Lee has published four books in addition to journal articles, reviews and catalogue essays. Three  books have appeared with the MIT Press: Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2000);Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2004) and Forgetting the Art World (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2012) Another book New Games: Postmodernism after Contemporary Art was published by Routledge in 2012. Lee is currently working on a book called *Think Tank Aesthetics: Mid-Century Modernism, The Cold War and the Rise of Visual Culture.*

For more information: visualmedia@ucsc.edu

Free and open to the public. Night parking permits can be purchased for $3 at the Parking Sales Office in the H Barn. Parking Sales Office map / Porter D Building and parking map