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Slought Foundation, an organization rethinking contemporary arts, presents “Wiliam Anastasi's Pataphysical Society,” a symposium on Saturday, December 11, 2004 critically engaging William Anastasi's work in relation to literary and artistic predecessors and contemporaries including Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp and Cage. This one-day symposium, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation, features presentations by and conversations with a variety of noted critics and academics including Thomas McEvilley, Steve McCaffery, Joseph Masheck, William Anastasi, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Alison Armstrong, and Ian Hays. For documentation and audio recordings from past Slought Foundation projects with William Anastasi, visit: http://slought.org/search/anastasi/
Joseph Masheck studied art history under Meyer Schapiro at Columbia and proceeded to the doctorate under Rudolf Wittkower and Dorothea Nyberg. A former editor-in-chief of Artforum, (1977-80), he has taught at Columbia, where he was also a member of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and at Harvard and Hofstra. Masheck recently completed an M.Litt. in aesthetics at Trinity College Dublin, and is working on a cluster of essays on Adolf Loos. Recent books and parts: Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction (Cambridge, 1993); Van Gogh 100 (ed.; Greenwood, 1996); centenary ed. of Arthur Wesley Dow's Composition (California, 1997); 'The Vital Skin: Riegl, the Maori and Loos,' in Richard Woodfield, ed., Framing Formalism: Riegl and the History of Art, Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture (G+B Arts International, 2001); Marcel Duchamp in Perspective (ed.; 1975), repr. (DaCapo, forthcoming). Recent articles: 'On a Crypto-Corbusianism in Breton's Nadja,' Annals of Scholarship, 13 (1999); 'A Pre-Bretonian Case of Automatic Drawing: Spare and Carter's "Automatic Drawing" (1916),' Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, no. 38 (Autumn 2000); 'Karel Teige: Functionalist and Then Some,' Art in America, December 2001.
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