"Refusal of Personality": Brigid Doherty on Rosemarie Trockel and Rorschach

Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 5 a.m.

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In this episode of In the Foreground, Caro Fowler (Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute) speaks with Brigid Doherty, Associate Professor in the Departments of Art and Archaeology and German at Princeton University. Brigid\\u2019s research focuses on the interdisciplinary study of twentieth-century art and literature, especially relationships among artistic practices and aesthetic and psychoanalytic theories. In this conversation, she describes her intellectual path towards modernism and delves into the project she worked on as a fellow at the Clark in spring 2020, a book on the \\u201cRorschach Pictures\\u201d of the German artist Rosemarie Trockel.

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