Peter Rutkoff, NEH distinguished professor of history at Kenyon
College, speaks on “Bebop and Abstract Art” on Monday, May 8, at
7:30 p.m. in Arts 213.
During his two-day visit, Rutkoff is visiting a number
of history and English classes.
Rutkoff is author of The Radical Right in France,
1880-1900; and, with William B. Scott, New School: A History of The
New School for Social Research, 1917-1970 and the recent New York
Modern: The Arts and the City.
Exploring the relationship of the city to the works of
artists like Isadora Duncan, Georgia O'Keefe, Eugene O'Neill, Duke
Ellington and Jackson Pollock, New York Modern considers the ways
New York artists redefined what it meant to be “modern.”