Andrei started following the work of Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, MIT, Physics.
Andrei started following the work of Susanne Bobzien, Yale University, Philosophy.
Andrei started following the work of George Flaherty, The University of Texas at Austin, Art and Art History.
Post-Doc, Kunsthistorisches Seminar
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I have a book manuscript about the painter Henry Fuseli (1741 Zürich - 1825 London), a renegade neoclassicist using Greek art and tragedy as paradigmatic of 'other cultures' rather than as canons of European identity.
My next project is to devise a semantics for neoclassical art, which is interesting for its apparently continuous reference to the same 'person' or 'thing' (say, Laocoon) across physical media and modes of thought (myth, fiction, visual art). I intended to apply this to the fall of classicism in art and reappearance elsewhere, namely Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy. Now I am thinking of limiting the project to its theoretical component, but broadening its scope to art in general, and being more forthright about its intellectual origins in philosophy around 1900.
I have modest essays on Wittgenstein and Plato forthcoming in edited volumes, and would like to devote more time to these and related authors.
I am also translating Karl Rosenkranz's Ästhetik des Hässlichen (Aesthetics of Ugliness, 1853) into English with Mechtild Widrich. Our volume on ugliness is being published by Tauris later this year.
