Graduate Lecture Series: David Levi Strauss

February 22, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lecture Forum
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)
3001 S. Flower Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007

David Levi Strauss is the author of From Head to Hand: Art & the Manual (2010), Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics, with an introduction by John Berger (2003), Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art and Politics (1999), Broken Wings: The Legacy of Landmines (1998), and a book of poems, Manoeuvres (1980). His essays and reviews appear regularly in Artforum and Aperture. He has contributed to exhibition catalogues and monographs on the work of numerousartists, including Martin Puryear, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Carolee Schneemann, Alfredo Jaar, Daniel Martinez, Francesca Woodman, Mike Bidlo, Terry Winters, Miguel Rio Branco, Tim Davis, and Leon Golub. Strauss was a Guggenheim fellow in 2003-4 and received the Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography in 2007. He was on the faculty of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College from 2000-2005, and is now Chair of the graduate program in Art Criticism & Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York.