The Art of the Real ─ Visual Studies and New Materialisms

Roger Rothman is the Samuel H. Kress Professor of Art History at Bucknell University. He has published articles on Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism, and is the author of Tiny Surrealism: Salvador Dali and the Aesthetics of the Small (Nebraska, 2013). He is currently writing a book on Fluxus and the production of an affirmative neo-avant-garde. Ian Verstegen is Associate Director of Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published on early modern and modern art, historiography and theory. He is the author of A Realist Theory of Art History (2013) and Cognitive Iconology: When and How Psychology Explains Images (2014).