In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Michael Ann Holly (emeritus Starr Director, Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute) dares to think about what is whispered, hidden, or concealed by prosaic interactions with objects and images, imagining what phenomenology might contribute to the understanding of canonical works of art. 

Michael Ann Holly is the Starr Director Emeritus of the Research and Academic Program (RAP) at the Clark Art Institute. She directed RAP and taught in the Williams College Graduate Program from 1999–2016. Previously she cofounded and chaired the Visual and Cultural Studies Program at the University of Rochester (1988–1999). She is the author and co-editor of essays and books on the critical theory and history of the history of art, including authoring Panofsky and the Foundations of Art History; Past Looking: Rhetoric and the Historical Imagination; The Melancholy Art, and editor of Visual Culture; Visual Theory; The Subjects of Art History; Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies; and What is Research in the Visual Arts?. Holly has received national and international awards, grants, visiting professorships and fellowships, from the Guggenheim, the Getty Research Institute, National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Senior Fellowship at The Center at the National Gallery of Art, among others.

Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. A 5 pm reception in the Manton Research Center reading room precedes the event.

Image: Cover detail Somewhere Between Art History and Phenomenology