Event time:
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (BRBL)
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
A conversation between the authors of two recent books exploring the interplay between techniques of assemblage in media and in architecture: Craig Buckley, Assistant Professor of Art History at Yale, author of Graphic Assembly: Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s, and Martino Stierli, Philip Johnson Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, author of Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space. Examples from Beinecke’s holdings of Dada, Constructivism, and postwar avant-gardes will be on display in an object session just prior to the event, from 4-5 pm, in Rooms 38/39.