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Queensland Art Gallery

What is Contemporary Art History? Presented by international scholar James Meyer, Emory University, Atlanta

2.00pm Friday 12 October 2007
Cinema B, Gallery of Modern Art
Free, includes coffee
Bookings are recommended as seating is limited. To book email or telephone (07) 3840 7061


James Meyer (Winship Distinguished Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University, Atlanta) is a specialist on the art of the 1960s and contemporary art, and a contributing editor of the international art journal, Artforum.

He is the author of Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties (2001), editor of Minimalism (2000) and Carl Andre’s Cuts: Texts 1959–2004 (2005), and is presently developing a volume of his art criticism entitled The Return of the Sixties: Narratives of the Contemporary. This lecture is presented in conjunction with The University of Queensland, where James Meyer is the 2007 recipient of the Daphne Mayo Visiting Professorship in Visual Culture.

The School of English, Media Studies and Art History at The University of Queensland presents the Professorship annually to a major figure who visits Brisbane to speak about the latest trends, influences, and theories in their area of visual culture.

James Meyer
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Lecture held in conjunction with the University of Queensland Daphne Mayo visiting Professorship in Visual Culture

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