David Levi Strauss | |
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 Levi Strauss in Speaking Portraits | |
| Born | March 10, 1953 Junction City, Kansas |
| Other names | Levi Strauss |
| Citizenship | American |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, Professor, Critic |
| Spouse | Sterret Smith |
| Children | Maya Levi Strauss |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2003-2004) Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Kansas State University, Goddard College (B.A.), radical pedagogy under Paulo Freire |
| Alma mater | Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. |
| Influences | John Berger, Robert Duncan |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Art Criticism, Writing, Art and Literary Studies |
| Institutions | Chair of the graduate program in Art Criticism & Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. |
| Notable students | Emmanuel Iduma |
| Main interests | Photography and Politics, Philosophy of Art, Criticism |
| Notable works | Between The Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics, Photography and Belief (2020), Co-Illusion (2020) |
David Levi Strauss (born March 10, 1953, in Junction City, Kansas) is an American poet, essayist, art and cultural critic, and educator. He is the author of a book of poetry, four books of essays, and numerous monographs and catalogues on artists. He was Chair of the graduate program in Art Writing (formerly Art Criticism & Writing) at the School of Visual Arts in New York City from 2007 until that program closed in 2021.[1] He also taught at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College from 2001 to 2005, and since 2002 he has continued to teach in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard.[2]
Strauss’ principal subject in his books of essays has been the relation between aesthetics and politics.[3][4][5][6][7] He has been called “the undisputed champion of literary art writing,”[8] and writer Lucy Sante called him “photography’s troubled conscience.”[9]
Strauss’ critiques and theories about the role and influence of art and photography on society are frequently cited in the works of other contemporary writers and critics.[10][11]
- ^ "David Levi Strauss Appointed Chair of the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department". Archived from the original on 2017-01-16.
- ^ "David Levi Strauss".
- ^ Elizabeth Jane VanArragon (2006). The Photo League: Views of Urban Experience in the 1930s and 1940s. pp. 46–. ISBN 978-0-542-79613-5.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Griffith, David (4 August 2006). A Good War Is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America. Soft Skull Press. pp. 108–. ISBN 978-1-933368-12-2.
- ^ Catherine Grant; Lori Waxman (2011). Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art. Intellect Books. pp. 83–. ISBN 978-1-84150-348-6.
- ^ Salvato, Nick (2010). Uncloseting Drama. Yale University Press. pp. 145–. ISBN 978-0-300-16017-8.
- ^ Brito, Manuel (2010). Means Matter: Market Fructification of Innovative American Poetry in the Late 20th Century. Peter Lang. pp. 76–. ISBN 978-3-0343-0444-3.
- ^ "Seven Great Summer Art Reads". Canadian Art.
- ^ Luc Sante, blurb on back cover of Between the Eyes (Aperture, 2003)
- ^ Durden, Mark (2013). Fifty Key Writers on Photography. Routledge. pp. 256–. ISBN 978-0-415-54944-8.
- ^ Gregory Barz; Judah M. Cohen (15 September 2011). The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts. Oxford University Press. pp. 414–. ISBN 978-0-19-978136-2.