Art and Architecture: The City Lost and Found | Katherine A. Bussard, Jane Crawford, Jessamyn Fiore, Alison Fisher, Greg Foster-Rice, Max Page | Architectural Explorations in Books Series Event

FREE - South Court Auditorium doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Join authors Katherine A. Bussard, Alison Fisher, Greg Foster-Rice and Max Page as they discuss their groundbreaking project The City Lost and Found, an exhibition on view this spring at the Princeton University Art Museum. The accompanying publication considers how photographers, architects, activists, performance artists, and filmmakers turned conditions of urban crisis in the 1960s and 1970s into sites for civic discourse and artistic expression. Joining the discussion are Gordon Matta-Clark's widow Jane Crawford and her daughter Jessaymn Fiore. This book raises timely questions about the role of art within the social, political, and physical landscape of cities. 

American cities underwent seismic transformations in the 1960s and '70s, from shifting demographics and political protests to reshaping through highways and urban renewal. The City Lost and Found explores photographic and cinematic responses to the changing fabric of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles that contributed to a reconsideration of cities in popular media and urban policy during this period. Featuring contributions from more than 20 scholars in fields including art history, urban planning, architecture, and cultural studies, this is the first publication to address an important shift in photographic, cinematic, and planning practices based on close observations of streets, neighborhoods, and seminal events in the country’s three largest cities.

Copies of The City Lost and Found (Princeton University Art Museum, 2015) are available for purchase and signing at the end of the event.

Katherine A. Bussard is the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography at the Princeton University Art Museum. Bussard is the author of Unfamiliar Streets: The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia (2014). Other publications include Color Rush: American Color Photography from Stieglitz to Sherman (2013); Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now (2008); and So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan (2006). Prior to her appointment at Princeton in 2013, Bussard was associate curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jane Crawford is a filmmaker and the widow of Gordon Matta-Clark. She is co-director of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark with her daughter Jessamyn Fiore.

Jessamyn Fiore is a curator, writer, and artist based in New York. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 2002, she moved to Ireland where she ran her own theater company for three years. In 2007, she became Director of Thisisnotashop, a not-for-profit gallery space in Dublin, which supported emerging artists and co-founded The Writing Workshop, which functioned as a collaborative forum for writers and artists. She received a Masters from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2010. She is currently co-director of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark with her mother Jane Crawford, Matta-Clark’s widow. At David Zwirner in New York, Fiore curated the exhibitions 112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970–1974) (2011), which led to the critically acclaimed, eponymous catalogue (David Zwirner/Radius Books, 2012), and Gordon Matta-Clark: Above and Below (2013). In 2014, she became a partner at the New York gallery, Rawson Projects, where she had previously organized the group exhibition The Balloon.

Alison Fisher is Harold and Margot Schiff Assistant Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. Since joining the museum in 2009, she has curated numerous exhibitions, including the retrospective Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention (2011–12), which was accompanied by a scholarly catalogue. Fisher teaches courses in art and architectural history at area universities, and her publications and research focus on issues of politics, technology, housing, and of course, cities. Her projects have been recognized with awards and grants from the Graham Foundation, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Bourse Chateaubriand program of the Embassy of France.

Greg Foster-Rice is an associate professor at Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches the history, theory, and criticism of photography. He is the recipient of numerous grants, including the Terra Foundation for American Art / Lloyd Lewis Fellowship in American Art History at the Newberry Library, Chicago, which funded important early archival research for The City Lost and Found. Recent publications include an essay for the catalogue Black Is, Black Ain’t (2013) and the anthology Reframing the New Topographics (2011), which he coedited and coauthored.

Max Page is Professor of Architecture at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He is the author or editor of eight books The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (1999), which won the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural Historians; The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction (2008); Building the Nation:  Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Environment (2003, co-edited with Steven Conn); Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States (2003, co-edited with Randall Mason); The Future of Higher Education (2011, with Dan Clawson); Reconsidering Jane Jacobs (2011, co-edited with Tim Mennell); Campus Guide to the University of Massachusetts (2013, with Marla Miller); and Memories of Buenos Aires: Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina (2013). He is a recipient of fellowships from the  Fulbright Commission and Guggenheim Foundation. This past year he was a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, working on a book on the future of historic preservation.

In its seventh year Architectural Explorations in Books, initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni, is a series of engaging programs delving into the critical role that architecture publications play in the understanding of contemporary urban developments and structures. The events feature book presentations and discussions by acclaimed architects, critics, curators, designers, photographers and writers.

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