the Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar
Aruna D'Souza
Propositions about Feminist Form
This lecture took place on November 10th, 2011 at 7:00 pm in the Wollman Auditorium at the Cooper Union
Lecture introduction
This lecture will discuss the reasons why a feminist theory of form—not subject matter, or institutional context, but form itself—might be crucial at this moment when abstract painting has been reoccupied as a genre of art making, and what some avenues for thinking this theory might be.
About Aruna D'Souza
Aruna D’Souza is Associate Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. She specializes in modern and contemporary art, and feminist theory and critiques of globalization and art. Her book Cézanne’s Bathers: Biography and the Erotics of Paint appeared in 2008.