The Art History Association presents: A Multitude of Images A lecture on contemporary photomontage practices David Joselit, Distinguished Professor of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center Date: Thursday, February 27 Time: 7:00-8:30 p.m. Place: Lecture Center 104 Free and open to all Questions? E-mail np.arthistoryassociation@gmail.com Follow the Art History Association on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SUNYNPAHA Abstract: Departing from the proposition that modern art arises out of and responds to a population explosion of images, this lecture will offer an account of photomontage as a fundamental aesthetic technique that for nearly a century has managed such a “multitude.” Whereas artists associated with the invention of photomontage c. 1919, such as Hannah Höch, created works in which diverse images collide, contemporary practices of montage as exemplified by Rachel Harrison’s 2010 photo book, Abraham Lincoln, emphasize what a diverse population of images hold in common rather than their differences. An account of this transformation in montage suggests a shift in art’s politics toward what Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, among others, have theorized as the multitude.