JOHN YAU

Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA) is pleased to present the public lecture "What is Jasper Johns?" by John Yau.

John Yau is the author of thirteen books of poetry, including Radiant Silhouette: New & Selected Work 1974-1988 (1989) Borrowed Love Poems (2002) Ing Grish (2005) and, most recently, Bijoux in the Dark (2018) from Letter Machine Editions. A fiction writer and art critic, he has also published numerous monographs and books of criticism, including A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns (2008). Catherine Murphy (2016) Thomas Nozkowski, (2017), Philip Taaffe (2018), and The Wild Children of William Blake (2017). He is the recipient of 2018 Jackson Poetry Prize, which “honors an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition.” Previously, he has received awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, General Electric Foundation, Creative Capital-The Andy Warhol Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has been awarded a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government, and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Brooklyn College, and an Honorary Doctorate of Arts and Letters from the College of Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan. Yau is Professor of Critical Studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University) and lives in New York.

ABOUT SFSIA

Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA) is a nomadic, intensive summer academy with shifting programs in contemporary critical theory. SFSIA stresses an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the relationship between art and politics. The program consists of seminar-style lectures, deep readings, and workshops. An evening lecture program is free and open to the public. Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art was founded and is directed by Warren Neidich and is co-directed by Barry Schwabsky.