Griselda Pollock on Alina Szapocznikow

FEB 05 SUN: February 5 2012, 02:00pm; Hammer Lectures

: Alina Szapocznikow Lampe – bouche (Illuminated Lips) 1966 Colored polyester resin, metal, electrical wiring. Ranging from 11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm) to 17 15/16 in. (45.5 cm) high. The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow/Piotr Stanislawski. © The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow/Piotr Stanislawski/ADAGP, Paris.

Griselda Pollock on Alina Szapocznikow

Too Early and Too Late: The Sculptural Dissolutions of Alina Szapocznikow In and Out of Time

Scholar Griselda Pollock is internationally known for her work on feminist studies in the visual arts and cultural theory. Her current work on art as a form of inscription and transformation of traumatic legacies will appear in the forthcoming After-Images/After-Effects: Trauma and Aesthetic Inscription/Encryption in the Virtual Feminist Museum.

In conjunction with the exhibition Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972.

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