Meet the Modernist: Alex Zivkovic
Wednesday, March 18
7pm
Kossak Lecture Hall (Hunter North 1527)
Join us in welcoming incoming Assistant Professor of Art History Alex Zivkovic as he shares his lecture “Martinique’s ‘Vegetal Delirium’: The Politics of Surrealist Landscapes.”
Alex Zivkovic is an art and media historian. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art. His book project explores “the spectacle of life” in modern Paris, excavating the propagandistic work of greenhouses, aquariums, and colonial-themed gardens and looking at how these sites of artificial nature directly inspired impressionists, early filmmakers, and surrealists. He has published essays in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Afterimage, and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, as well as in museum catalogues on Édouard Manet and Remedios Varo.
