Lecture: "The Homonymic Chaos of the Jacobin Readymade: David Hammons’s Spade with Chains"

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Location: 200 Riley Hall of Art (View on map )

Visiting Assistant Professor Gregory Tentler is a historian of modern and contemporary art history. His research focuses on the postwar continental vanguard, conceptualism and their legacies in the present. His current book project examines the divergent trends and strategies in Conceptual Art in Southern Europe and the United States centered on a series of case studies of artists such as Piero Manzoni, Grup de Treball, and David Hammons. He has received grants from University of Pennsylvania and the American Academy in Rome in support of work. His essays have appeared in edited volumes and publications such as Gender and Sexuality and California Italian Studies.

Originally published at artdept.nd.edu.