Painted Valentines: The Artful Love Affair Between Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg
Event Speaker
Jonathan Katz
Associate Professor of Practice, History of Art and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
Café 58, Irvine Auditorium 3401 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Across some of the most famous paintings in the history of American art, Johns and Rauschenberg conducted a very public love affair that was also, by design, very private. In this talk Katz, a founding figure in queer art history, decodes their pictorial language and reveals their complex relationship.
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