International Art Expert, Professor David Hopkins, will deliver a
public lecture at UCC on Thursday, 2 November at 6.15pm.
Organised by UCC's History of Art, the lecture titled Dada's Boys : Duchamp: Warhol : Gordon
will explore the theme of masculinity in modern and contemporary art.
The lecture will draw upon material that Professor Hopkins investigates
in his forthcoming book for Yale University Press on male identity in
and after Dada and which was also the theme of his recent exhibition
Dada's Boys in Edinburgh.
David Hopkins is Professor of Art History (Modern and Contemporary) at the University of Glasgow.
Among his publications are :
After Modern Art 1945-2000 (Oxford, 2000)
Dada and Surrealism : A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2003)
Marcel Duchamp (co-authored, Thames and Hudson, 1999)
Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst : The Bride Shared, (Oxford, 1998)
And the edited volume Neo-Avant-Garde (Rodopi : Amsterdam, forthcoming)
Professor Hopkins recently curated the exhibition Dada's Boys : Play and Identity in Contemporary Art for the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2006)
This is the first lecture in the 2006/07 lecture series in theories of
Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts organised by UCC's
History of Art. The series will bring national and
international scholars to UCC to reflect upon and present their
research in a series of events.
The lecture takes place on Thursday, 2 November at 6.15pm, West Wing 5,
Main Quadrangle. Members of the public are invited to attend and
admission is free.
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