Panel discussion
On the occasion of Ara H. Merjian’s newly published volume from Yale University Press, “Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris”, this roundtable will address the relationship of Italy’s modernist movements – from Futurism to the short-lived ‘Scuola Metafisica”- to the cultural upheaval of World War One.
Panelists:
Raffaele Bedarida, Adjunct Instructor at Cooper Union and Fellow at the Center for Italian Modern Art.
Jennifer Hirsh, director of the MA in Critical Studies program and a faculty member in the department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Ara H. Merjian, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at New York University and an affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and the Department of Art History.
After the panel discussion, the audience will have the opportunity to admire the de Chirico’s painting “Le Muse Inquietanti” (1950s version, ownership of the Italian State) located at ITA, with a short presentation given by prof. Ara H. Merjian.