Caws Art Lectures

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept. 19, 2006
Dr. Chad Stebbins
(417) 625-9736

 

Dr. Mary Ann Caws

JOPLIN (SNS) - Dr. Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, will deliver lectures on Thursday, Sept. 28 and Friday, Sept. 29 at Missouri Southern State University.

 

Both lectures are free.

 

Faculty, staff, students and members of the public are invited.

 

* Dr. Caws will present “What’s Dada/Surrealism?” at 9:30 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006 in

Webster Hall Auditorium

 

* Dr. Caws will present” Picasso’s Problem” at 10 a.m., Friday, Sept. 29, 2006 in Webster Hall Auditorium.

 

Dr. Mary Ann Caws is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her many areas of interest in 20th century avant-garde literature and art include Surrealism, poets René Char and André Breton, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group, and artists Robert Motherwell, Joseph Cornell, and Pablo Picasso.

 

Conceptually, one of her primary themes has been the relationship between image and text. Dr. Caws’ books include: Pablo Picasso (Critical Lives series); To the Boathouse: A Memoir; Marcel Proust (Illustrated Lives); Robert Motherwell with Pen and Brush; Virginia Woolf (Illustrated Lives); Joseph Cornell’s Theater of the Mind; and Picasso’s Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar.

 

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