Metonymy in Contemporary Art

Book Event for Metonymy in Contemporary Art

Where: Barnes and Noble at Astor Place, 4 Astor Place, New York, NY, 10003
(212) 420-1322

When: Friday, July 14, 7:00 PM

Book Event/Discussion for "Metonymy in Contemporary Art: a New Paradigm" by Denise Green (University of Minnesota Press)

Free admission.

Denise Green develops an original approach to art criticism and modes of creativity inspired by aspects of Australian Aboriginal and Indian thought. Interweaving her own evolution as an artist with critiques of Clement Greenberg and Walter Benjamin as well as commentary on artists such as Mark Rothko and Frank Stella, Green explores the concept of metonymic thinking and its relevance to contemporary painting.

DENISE GREEN is an Australian American artist and writer in New York City. Since 1972 her work has been the subject of over eighty-five solo exhibitions. She has collaborated as an editor for Semiotext(e) and is a member of the Graduate Faculty at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Her writings have appeared in Arts Magazine, Art Press, Art Monthly Australia, and Art and Australia. Retrospectives of her work have appeared in major museums from the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center/Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, and the Saarland Museum in Saarbrucken, Germany. Examples of her work can be found at www.denisegreen.net.