BOOK LAUNCH: Denise Green book launch and artist's talk

Denise Green 'Metonymy in Contemporary Art: A New Paradigm'

In 'Metonymy in Contemporary Art', Denise Green develops an original approach to art criticism and modes of creativity inspired by aspects of Australian Aboriginal and Indian thought. Interweaving her own evolution as an artist with critiques of Clement Greenberg and Walter Benjamin as well as commentary on artists such as Joseph Beuys, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella and others, Green explores the concept of metonymic thinking as developed by the poet and linguist, A. K. Ramanujan, and its relevance to contemporary painting and aesthetics.

Denise Green is an Australian artist living in New York City. She attended the Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts and the Sorbonne in Paris and then studied in the Graduate Fine Arts Program at Hunter College in New York with Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell.She has spent the last 30 years in the art world of Soho and Tribeca in New York. Since 1972 her work has been the subject of over 85 solo exhibitions. She has collaborated as an editor of Semiotext[e] and is a member of the Graduate Faculty at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

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