Lectures & Literary past

Portraits and Self-Portraits in the Art of Warhol with Dr. Reva Wolf, SUNY New Paltz

Tue—6-25-2013
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Photo by the American-Scandinavian Foundation

TUE 6-25-2013 – 6:30 PM
free

Art historian Reva Wolf discusses the relationship between portraits and self-portraits, contextualizing and exploring Munch’s Self-Portrait by Warhol.

About Dr. Reva Wolf

Reva Wolf teaches and writes about art of the 18th century to the present. She is the author of two books: Goya and the Satirical Print in England and on the Continent, 1730-1850 (David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., 1991) and Andy Warhol, Poetry, and Gossip in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 1997). Wolf’s recent work focuses on methodology, art and humor, the reception of art, and issues of appropriation and authenticity.

She has held fellowships at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She was the 2010-11 recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching