On the occasion of Ara H. Merjian's newly published volume from Yale University Press, "Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris", this roundtable will address the relationship of Italy's modernist movements - from Futurism to the short-lived 'Scuola Metafisica"- to the cultural upheaval of World War One.

Panelists: Raffaele Bedarida, a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art at CUNY, and lecturer at The New School and Parsons. Jennifer Hirsh, director of the MA in Critical Studies program and a faculty member in the department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Ara H. Merjian, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at New York University and an affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and the Department of Art History. After the panel discussion, the audience will have the opportunity to admire the de Chirico's painting "Le Muse Inquietanti" located at ICE, with a short presentation given by prof. Ara H. Merjian.

Info

Date: Thursday, May 08, 2014

Hours: 6PM

Venue: Italian Trade Commission, 33 East 67th Street New York, NY

Organized by: ICI

In collaboration with: ICE