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Lisa Florman
Lisa Florman is professor and chair of the History of Art Department at Ohio State University. Her primary interests are in modernism, philosophical aesthetics and, especially, the intersection of the two in the early twentieth century. Her first book, Myth and Metamorphosis (MIT Press, 2000), examines Picasso’s classicizing prints of the 1930s in the context of both surrealism and contemporaneous understandings of classical antiquity. Her second book, Concerning the Spiritual – and the Concrete – in Kandinsky’s Art (Stanford, 2014), explores the philosophical justifications underlying painting’s turn towards non-representation in the early twentieth century. Other significant publications have addressed Clement Greenberg’s 1959 essay, ‘Collage’, and ‘The Philosophical Brothel’, Leo Steinberg’s seminal work on Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.