A lecture presented by Chapman University Presidential Fellow Dr. Marjorie Perloff.

Wednesday, May 2, 2018 • 4 - 6 p.m.

Center for American War Letters
Leatherby Libraries, Lower Level

Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

About the speaker: Dr. Marjorie Perloff is a prolific and groundbreaking scholar. She has written more than a dozen books, including works on the poets W.B. Yeats, Robert Lowell, and Frank O’Hara, and on post-modern literature and art. A recipient of the Robert Penn Warren Prize, Dr. Perloff is Scholar-in-Residence and Florence Scott Professor of English, Emerita at USC, and Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities, Emerita at Stanford University. She is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Perloff is a Chapman University Presidential Fellow and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Chapman University in May 2015. Dr. Perloff donated her personal library to the Chapman University Leatherby Libraries in 2010.

About the lecture: Jasper Johns, iconic American painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Frank O’Hara, leading American poet. John Cage, one of the most influential composers and music theorists of the 20th century. They all were leaders in the post-war avant-garde. This lecture will explore their relationships in order to illuminate Johns’s enigmatic paintings and graphic works such as his elegiac In Memory of My Feelings, and how his work in turn illuminates O’Hara’s poems as well as Cage’s Conceptualist aesthetic.