Paul Smith

University of Warwick

June–July 2015

Paul Smith is Professor of History of Art at the University of Warwick. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Getty Scholar. His publications include books and articles on Seurat, Impressionism, Cézanne, art theory, picture perception, and Wittgenstein’s anti-theoretical thinking. At the Clark, he will be working on pictorial syntax, or how we form the image in a picture from structures we extract from the physical marks on its surface.