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...book was called Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid--Gödel being the Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel; Escher, the fantastical Dutch artist M.C. Escher; and Bach, the Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach. The extraordinary mind that braided these three figures together in one book belonged to one Douglas Hofstadter, a physics Ph.D. who was only 34 years old at the time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for Gödel, Escher, Bach, and it went on to become a cult classic that influenced a generation of thinkers. Since then Hofstadter has published on numerous subjects...
...immigrant sensibility.†Boym says that she prefers her artwork to float in space without constraint or definition. “I don’t like when images are framed. I like the dialectic of transience and framing.†And like her work, artist, scholar, and writer Boym defies simple classification. “I think that being a serious scholar and being an artist are not opposed,†she says. “I’m not trying to be a professional artist. I like the idea of working against...
...Burgin’s critique focused on the critical concept of the death of the artist. “It was totally disorienting,†says Lien, since her paintings are still in progress...
...Burgin capped off his week as Sert Practitioner with a public lecture, “The Responsibility of the Artist,†on Thursday March 8 at the Carpenter Center. In the lecture, first given at the National Institute for the History of Art in December 2005, he presented his art practice and writings in the context of the intellectual history of conceptual...
Hans Tutschku is an artist who defies classification. Although his first profession is composing, this associate professor of music and director of the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition has experimented with performance art, sound installation, video art, and theater design. Tutschku has incorporated all of these disciplines into a new art exhibition called “TELL ME!…a secret…†at the Carpenter Center, which opened last Thursday and will run for five weeks. The exhibit features photographs with interactive sound components, as well as a sound and light installation. Tutschku...