Lecture Carter Ratcliff

In this lecture, noted critic Carter Ratcliff explores the consolidation of pop art as a major style, as well as its unflagging influence over more than three decades.

Carter Ratcliff, who is also a poet, lives in New York and has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, and Hunter College.

His most recent books are Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art 1965-1975 (2000) and The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art (1998). A new selection of his essays, titled The Figure of the Artist, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Ratcliff's writings have also appeared in major European and American journals and in many museum publications.