Professor Tom Williams Talks Pop and Politics at CAA Conference
March 01, 2012
Assistant professor of art history Tom Williams delivered a paper at the College Art Association’s 100th Annual Conference, held February 22–25 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Williams presented “Souvenirs for a Riot: Claes Oldenburg, Pop Art, and Chicago ‘68,” as part of the Pop and Politics session.
The CAA conference brings together thousands of artists, art historians, students, educators, critics, curators, collectors, librarians, gallerists, and other professionals in the visual arts, with a program featuring more than 200 sessions exploring art, art history, and visual culture from ancient times to the present.
Pictured at the Pop and Politics, Part I panel are Anthony E. Grudin, University of Vermont (“Magic Art Reproducer: Class and Reproduction in Warhol’s ‘Superman’”), Tom Williams, and Seth McCormick, Western Carolina University (“Pop Art in Dark Times: Masculinities and Mass Subjectivity in the Age of McCarthyism”).
Check out this feature, by Michael Dooley, in Imprint: Pop Art, Politics and Critiques of Contemporary Culture.