Pamela M. Lee is an art historian and Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. Her research focuses on late

modernism Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

and

contemporary art Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic com ...

, particularly the relationship between

aesthetics Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed thr ...

and

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. She graduated from

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and from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. In her work ''Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s'', Lee studies art and technology in the 1960s. Within this period, such artists as Bridget Riley,

Carolee Schneemann Carolee Schneemann (October 12, 1939 – March 6, 2019) was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. in poetry and philosophy from Bard College and ...

, Jean Tinguely,

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationsh ...

, and On Kawara pique her interest. She “identifies an experience of time common to both rt and technology and she calls this experience 'chronophobia'.” After studying Michael Fried's essay 'Art and Objecthood', she discovers that as time goes by, art starts to reflect the quickness of time. Within her work, Lee references Alvin Toffler's book ''Future Shock''. She claims that “the concept of time they espouse is chronophobic as defined in her book, and their popularity means that their concept of time was widely shared.” In her work she fears “perpetual presentness,

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time is constant without conclusion.” Many chronophobes feel this way, they fear the fact that time is never ending.

Works

* ''Object to be Destroyed: The Work of

Gordon Matta-Clark Gordon Matta-Clark (born Gordon Roberto Matta-Echaurren; June 22, 1943 – August 27, 1978) was an American artist best known for site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He was also a pioneer in the field of socially engaged food art. ...

'' (

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, 2000) * ''Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s'' (MIT Press, 2004) , * ''Forgetting the Art World'' (MIT Press, 2012) , * ''New Games: Postmodernism after Contemporary Art'' (

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, 2012) , * ''The Glen Park Library: A Fairy Tale of Disruption'' ( no place press, 2019) * ''Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present '' (

, 2020)

References

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