[Art-instructors] Nov 12–13: Visiting Scholar Ara H. Merjian

[Celeste Ivory]

>From the Department of Art History regarding an upcoming guest scholar program, to be held Nov. 12–13, with Dr. Ara Merjian (NYU, Italian Studies, affiliate faculty Art History and Comp Lit) on Futurist photography and on Professor Tenley Bick's book on Pistoletto (program information below).

This may be of interest to students in art, especially any interested in Futurism, photography, experimental figuration, and Arte Povera.


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Please join us on November 12 and 13 for two events featuring visiting scholar Ara H. Merjian, Professor of Italian Studies and Affiliated Faculty,  Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York University.

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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12

Lecture: “A Collective of One: Umberto Boccioni’s I/We and Photography before Futurism”

5:30PM
WJB G40
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 13

Book Talk: A conversation with  Art History Associate Professor Tenley Bick, about her new book Michelangelo Pistoletto: Figuration and Cultural Politics

4:30PM
WJB G40

Ara H. Merjian is Professor in the department of Italian Studies at NYU, where he is an affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and Comparative Literature. He is the author and editor of several books, including Gramsci’s Circle of Humanity and Armenia (2016); Surrealism and Anti-Fascism (2024); and Beat, Black, Queer: Pasolini’s Other America, out with Verso in 2026. Other books include  Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris  (Yale University Press, 2014), Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, Neo-Capitalism (University of Chicago Press, 2020), and Futurism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2025). Before arriving at NYU, Dr. Merjian taught at Harvard, Stanford, and the San Quentin State Penitentiary College Education Program. His book from Yale University Press, Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde recently won the 2025 Robert Motherwell Book Award and the 2025 Scaglione Prize in Italian Studies from the MLA.
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Art History Associate Professor Tenley Bick published Michelangelo Pistoletto: Figuration and Cultural Politics this year with Yale University Press. Examining the Italian artist’s career-long exploration of the human figure, the book offers new perspectives on the history of postwar and contemporary art. Dr. Bick’s book is the first English-language scholarly monograph on the artist and first monograph in any language since the mid-1980s. With 140 illustrations (81 in color), the book features many previously unseen images and works of art, including early drawings and design work.

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