Pamela M Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 1052673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela M Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | PAMELA M. LEE is Professor of Art History at Stanford University. She is the author of Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (MIT, 2000) and Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (MIT, 2004). Her current project concerns the aesthetics of the Cold War think tank. |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6003-0496 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Okwui Enwezor's Prehistory of the Present: A Conversation
Shortly before his untimely death in 2019, aged 55, curator Okwui Enwezor asked art historian and critical theorist Terry Smith, a longtime friend and close collaborator, to collect a representative sample of his published writings, then scattered in catalogues, journals, magazines, and online. In this conversation, curator Naomi Beckwith and art historians Huey Copeland and Pamela M. Lee talk with Smith about his editorship of the resultant two …
Six Propositions After Trump's Second Victory
1. On Lateness and "Late Fascism" When news of Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally broke, the historians were ready. Not that much editorializing was required, for the image archive told the story in the bluntest terms. Black-and-white photographs pictured the German American Bund staging its "Pro American Rally" in the same arena in 1939, complete with a monumental portrait of George Washington flanked by swastikas, a low point in a movem…
A Questionnaire on Art and Machine Learning
Earlier this year, October distributed a questionnaire about art and machine learning to a select group of artists, art historians, critics, and curators, posing the following questions: “If AI algorithms have the capacity to analyze massive datasets and identify patterns, how has this capability influenced the generation of new artistic concepts and ideas? How are artists collaborating with, changing, torquing, or critiquing AI systems? Compared…
Generative and Adversarial: Art and the Prospects of AI
This essay serves as an introduction to the Questionnaire on Art and Machine Learning. It opens with the testimony of Sam Altman before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Privacy, Technology and the Law in May 2023, following the launch of ChatGPT a year earlier. ChatGPT is part of a wave of generative AI: AI that not only classifies or analyzes information but also generates it. Media responses to ChatGPT and a range of other text-to-image and…
Between Visual Scenes and Beautiful Lives: A Conversation with Saidiya Hartman
This wide-ranging conversation with Black cultural theorist Saidiya Hartman-occasioned by the twenty-fifth anniversary of her groundbreaking first book, Scenes of Subjection, to be republished this year in an edition by Norton-explores the author's shifting approaches to the visual over time, the limitations and potentialities of the archive for its discontents, and the models she has both turned to and herself invented-most notably the concept o…
Introduction: Aspiration Burnout
This introduction to the special thematic cluster on burnout describes how the notion has informed cultures of contemporary work during the pandemic and the ways in which the concept of burnout reproduces the intertwined interests of labor and self-management under conditions of neoliberalism. The essay sketches a brief genealogy of the term, starting with the formulation of neurasthenia that preceded it and proceeding to its first citation withi…
Our Names: An Open Letter to Asian Sisters
This open letter responds to the murders of six women of Asian descent on March 16, 2021, all workers in Atlanta-area massage parlors. It describes both the contemporary climate and the historical foundations for anti-Asian/AAPI racism in the country, and it reflects on both the promise and the violence that inheres in acts of naming and nomination for Asian women. In its address to "Asian sisters," the letter challenges the terms of Asian Americ…
A Questionnaire on Decolonization
The term decolonize has gained a new life in recent art activism, as a radical challenge to the Eurocentrism of museums (in light of Native, Indigenous, and other epistemological perspectives) as well as in the museum's structural relation to violence (either in its ties to oligarchic trustees or to corporations engaged in the business of war or environmental depredation). In calling forth the mid-twentieth-century period of decolonization as its…
Face Time, Pandemic Style
This article considers the prospects of "facial politics" in the wake of CoVID-19. Recounted through the author's positionality as an Asian American feminist academic, the article describes her encounters in the university and the street, in the United States and China. Addressing gestures of face touching and the trope of the mask relative to its wearer, the essay draws on the work of Mel Y. Chen on the viral conjunction of race, animality, illn…
Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019)
A brief remembrance of Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019), "the most influential curator of the past quarter-century
Digital
Aesthetic Strategist: Albert Wohlstetter, the Cold War, and a Theory of Mid-Century Modernism
October 01 2011 Aesthetic Strategist: Albert Wohlstetter, the Cold War, and a Theory of Mid-Century Modernism Pamela M. Lee Pamela M. Lee PAMELA M. LEE is Professor of Art History at Stanford University. She is the author of Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (MIT, 2000) and Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (MIT, 2004). Her current project concerns the aesthetics of the Cold War think tank. Search for other works …
My Enemy/My Friend
July 01 2006 My Enemy/My Friend Pamela M. Lee Pamela M. Lee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Pamela M. Lee Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2006 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2006 Grey Room (2006) (24): 100–109. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey.2006.1.24.100 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Art…
Ultramoderne”: Or, How George Kubler Stole the Time in Sixties Art
January 01 2001 “Ultramoderne”: Or, How George Kubler Stole the Time in Sixties Art Pamela M. Lee Pamela M. Lee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Pamela M. Lee Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2001 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 Grey Room (2001) (2): 46–77. https://doi.org/10.1162/152638101750172993 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Sh…
Bridget Riley's Eye/Body Problem
Let the hand be numb, but let the eye be agile, perspicacious, cunning. —Félix Fénéon, as paraphrased by Bridget Riley
On the Holes of History: Gordon Matta-Clark's Work in Paris
Pater Nauman
The Aesthetics of Value, the Fetish of Method: A Case Study at the Peabody Museum
Bridget Riley's Eye/Body Problem
Let the hand be numb, but let the eye be agile, perspicacious, cunning. —Félix Fénéon, as paraphrased by Bridget Riley
A Questionnaire on Decolonization
The term decolonize has gained a new life in recent art activism, as a radical challenge to the Eurocentrism of museums (in light of Native, Indigenous, and other epistemological perspectives) as well as in the museum's structural relation to violence (either in its ties to oligarchic trustees or to corporations engaged in the business of war or environmental depredation). In calling forth the mid-twentieth-century period of decolonization as its…
Aesthetic Strategist: Albert Wohlstetter, the Cold War, and a Theory of Mid-Century Modernism
October 01 2011 Aesthetic Strategist: Albert Wohlstetter, the Cold War, and a Theory of Mid-Century Modernism Pamela M. Lee Pamela M. Lee PAMELA M. LEE is Professor of Art History at Stanford University. She is the author of Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (MIT, 2000) and Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (MIT, 2004). Her current project concerns the aesthetics of the Cold War think tank. Search for other works …
Ultramoderne”: Or, How George Kubler Stole the Time in Sixties Art
January 01 2001 “Ultramoderne”: Or, How George Kubler Stole the Time in Sixties Art Pamela M. Lee Pamela M. Lee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Pamela M. Lee Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2001 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 Grey Room (2001) (2): 46–77. https://doi.org/10.1162/152638101750172993 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Sh…
On the Holes of History: Gordon Matta-Clark's Work in Paris
Introduction: Aspiration Burnout
This introduction to the special thematic cluster on burnout describes how the notion has informed cultures of contemporary work during the pandemic and the ways in which the concept of burnout reproduces the intertwined interests of labor and self-management under conditions of neoliberalism. The essay sketches a brief genealogy of the term, starting with the formulation of neurasthenia that preceded it and proceeding to its first citation withi…
My Enemy/My Friend
July 01 2006 My Enemy/My Friend Pamela M. Lee Pamela M. Lee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Pamela M. Lee Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2006 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2006 Grey Room (2006) (24): 100–109. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey.2006.1.24.100 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Art…
Pater Nauman
The Aesthetics of Value, the Fetish of Method: A Case Study at the Peabody Museum
On the Holes of History: Gordon Matta-Clark's Work in Paris
Ultramoderne”: Or, How George Kubler Stole the Time in Sixties Art
January 01 2001 “Ultramoderne”: Or, How George Kubler Stole the Time in Sixties Art Pamela M. Lee Pamela M. Lee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Pamela M. Lee Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2001 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 Grey Room (2001) (2): 46–77. https://doi.org/10.1162/152638101750172993 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Sh…
Bridget Riley's Eye/Body Problem
Let the hand be numb, but let the eye be agile, perspicacious, cunning. —Félix Fénéon, as paraphrased by Bridget Riley
My Enemy/My Friend
July 01 2006 My Enemy/My Friend Pamela M. Lee Pamela M. Lee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Pamela M. Lee Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2006 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2006 Grey Room (2006) (24): 100–109. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey.2006.1.24.100 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Art…
Aesthetic Strategist: Albert Wohlstetter, the Cold War, and a Theory of Mid-Century Modernism
October 01 2011 Aesthetic Strategist: Albert Wohlstetter, the Cold War, and a Theory of Mid-Century Modernism Pamela M. Lee Pamela M. Lee PAMELA M. LEE is Professor of Art History at Stanford University. She is the author of Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (MIT, 2000) and Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (MIT, 2004). Her current project concerns the aesthetics of the Cold War think tank. Search for other works …
Digital
Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019)
A brief remembrance of Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019), "the most influential curator of the past quarter-century
A Questionnaire on Decolonization
The term decolonize has gained a new life in recent art activism, as a radical challenge to the Eurocentrism of museums (in light of Native, Indigenous, and other epistemological perspectives) as well as in the museum's structural relation to violence (either in its ties to oligarchic trustees or to corporations engaged in the business of war or environmental depredation). In calling forth the mid-twentieth-century period of decolonization as its…
Face Time, Pandemic Style
This article considers the prospects of "facial politics" in the wake of CoVID-19. Recounted through the author's positionality as an Asian American feminist academic, the article describes her encounters in the university and the street, in the United States and China. Addressing gestures of face touching and the trope of the mask relative to its wearer, the essay draws on the work of Mel Y. Chen on the viral conjunction of race, animality, illn…
Introduction: Aspiration Burnout
This introduction to the special thematic cluster on burnout describes how the notion has informed cultures of contemporary work during the pandemic and the ways in which the concept of burnout reproduces the intertwined interests of labor and self-management under conditions of neoliberalism. The essay sketches a brief genealogy of the term, starting with the formulation of neurasthenia that preceded it and proceeding to its first citation withi…
Our Names: An Open Letter to Asian Sisters
This open letter responds to the murders of six women of Asian descent on March 16, 2021, all workers in Atlanta-area massage parlors. It describes both the contemporary climate and the historical foundations for anti-Asian/AAPI racism in the country, and it reflects on both the promise and the violence that inheres in acts of naming and nomination for Asian women. In its address to "Asian sisters," the letter challenges the terms of Asian Americ…
Between Visual Scenes and Beautiful Lives: A Conversation with Saidiya Hartman
This wide-ranging conversation with Black cultural theorist Saidiya Hartman-occasioned by the twenty-fifth anniversary of her groundbreaking first book, Scenes of Subjection, to be republished this year in an edition by Norton-explores the author's shifting approaches to the visual over time, the limitations and potentialities of the archive for its discontents, and the models she has both turned to and herself invented-most notably the concept o…
A Questionnaire on Art and Machine Learning
Earlier this year, October distributed a questionnaire about art and machine learning to a select group of artists, art historians, critics, and curators, posing the following questions: “If AI algorithms have the capacity to analyze massive datasets and identify patterns, how has this capability influenced the generation of new artistic concepts and ideas? How are artists collaborating with, changing, torquing, or critiquing AI systems? Compared…
Generative and Adversarial: Art and the Prospects of AI
This essay serves as an introduction to the Questionnaire on Art and Machine Learning. It opens with the testimony of Sam Altman before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Privacy, Technology and the Law in May 2023, following the launch of ChatGPT a year earlier. ChatGPT is part of a wave of generative AI: AI that not only classifies or analyzes information but also generates it. Media responses to ChatGPT and a range of other text-to-image and…
Six Propositions After Trump's Second Victory
1. On Lateness and "Late Fascism" When news of Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally broke, the historians were ready. Not that much editorializing was required, for the image archive told the story in the bluntest terms. Black-and-white photographs pictured the German American Bund staging its "Pro American Rally" in the same arena in 1939, complete with a monumental portrait of George Washington flanked by swastikas, a low point in a movem…
Okwui Enwezor's Prehistory of the Present: A Conversation
Shortly before his untimely death in 2019, aged 55, curator Okwui Enwezor asked art historian and critical theorist Terry Smith, a longtime friend and close collaborator, to collect a representative sample of his published writings, then scattered in catalogues, journals, magazines, and online. In this conversation, curator Naomi Beckwith and art historians Huey Copeland and Pamela M. Lee talk with Smith about his editorship of the resultant two …
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