Stephen Melville, history of art, Ohio State University, has widely published on contemporary art as well as on issues in contemporary theory and historiography. He will speak in the Featuring Our Fellows Brown Bag Lecture presented by the Institute for the Humanities from noon-1:30 p.m. in Room 2022, 202 S. Thayer.
Melville’s lecture is titled, “Thing of the Past: On Hegel and Contemporary Art History.”
He served as resident faculty in 1999 at the Getty Summer Institute in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, and has lectured at Cornell University through the Ruth Woolsey Findley and William Nichols Findley Lecture series, The Johns Hopkins University and The Tate Modern in London.
With Philip Armstrong of the Division of Comparative Studies and Laura Lisbon (painting), he curated a major exhibition of contemporary painting at the Wexner Center for the Arts in May 2001. The exhibition was accompanied by a substantial catalogue from The MIT Press.
Melville has been active on numerous committees for the American Society for Aesthetics and has been on the editorial board for both the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. His recent publications include “As Painting: Division and Displacement,” the catalog that accompanied the 2001 Wexner Center exhibit, and “Seams: Art as a Philosophical Context,” 1996.
