Quotable Talk | Ara H. Merjian

Sarasota Art Museum's Quotable Talks author series brings in Ara H. Merjian, Professor of Italian Studies at New York University and an affiliate of its Institute of Fine Arts. His specialty is Italian Futurism, a movement that worshipped speed and machines, served as propaganda for Fascism and still spurred progressive modernist experiments. His Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde, the first major study of Futurist sculpture, won the Robert Motherwell Book Award. Futurism: A Very Short Introduction condenses the subject for general readers. Merjian has also written at length on Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giorgio de Chirico, written criticism for Artforum and frieze, and taught in the college program at San Quentin.