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Imagining Color: a public lecture by Elaine Scarry

  • NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute 20 Cooper Square, 7th floor New York, NY 10003 (map)
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New York Institute for the Humanities and NYU Center for the Humanities present:

Imagining X 2
Two Events on Visual and Poetic Imagination

Elaine Scarry is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. She is the author of The Body in Pain, Resisting Representation, Dreaming by the Book, On Beauty and Being Just, Who Defended the Country?, Rule of Law, Misrule of Men, Thinking in an Emergency, Thermonuclear Monarchy, and Naming Thy Name.

Co-sponsored by the Literary Reportage Program, Arthur L. Carter Journalism
Institute.

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Please click here for information on the companion event, Imagining X 2 II: Imagining Experience.