W.J.T. Mitchell @ Sculpture Center Tomorrow

In NYC tomorrow night? Be sure to catch W.J.T. Mitchell--author of What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images and editor of Critical Inquiry and a professor at the University of Chicago in the Departments of English Literature and Art History--presents some of the concepts that inspired SculptureCenter’s upcoming group exhibition, The Happiness of Objects, tomorrow night, Jan. 25th.

Mitchell has come a long way since his Picture Theory days, and as that volume was cited ad nauseum in the nineties, that is saying something.

Fredric Jameson on Mitchell's most recent work, What Do Pictures Want?:

This lively collection of essays is something more than a critical tour of the problematics of contemporary art theory; it is more than a set of pertinent (or impertinent) interventions on a series of current exhibits, films, and images of all kinds; more even than a tireless and insistent reproblematization of everybody's work on pictures, images, and image society, turning all the new ideas back into questions and more questions. It is also the elaboration of what is surely destined to become an influential new tripartite concept of the object, namely as idol, fetish, and totem."

And be sure to grab a copy of his forthcoming, The Late Derrida, this April.

Thursday, January 25, 7pm - W.J.T. Mitchell at Sculpturecenter.