Word: boise
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Bois, who was Pulitzer professor of modern art and one of the department’s star scholars in that field, left Harvard this summer for an appointment at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study.
Buchloh’s appointment comes at a time when the department is expanding its modernist expertise—despite losing Bois. It has doubled its faculty ranks within the last five years, Bois says.
“Of the scholars working on post-1945 art today, Buchloh is perhaps the only one for whom the question, raised by Theodor Adorno in the field of literature, about the possibility of art (and criticism) after the catastrophic trauma of World War II has remained absolutely central...
“We were successful in convincing the administration that we needed more faculty in this area, given the huge demand on the part of students (and also if we wanted to remain competitive with other graduate programs),” Bois wrote in an e-mail to the...
“The appointment of Buchloh was kind of a miracle—no one had expected he would be interested in the position,” added Bois, who assumed his new post at Princeton last week. “But it comes at the right time.?...