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"A Critique of What Art Can Do”: Jennifer Nelson on Undoing Mastery

"A Critique of What Art Can Do”: Jennifer Nelson on Undoing Mastery

Update: 2024-03-19
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In this episode, Sara Houghteling (special projects coordinator in the Research and Academic Program) speaks with Jennifer Nelson, a poet and scholar of early modern art at the University of Delaware. Through the lens of their first book on Holbein, and a second, forthcoming, on Cranach, Nelson describes how comparative studies of elite cultural production can allow us to the see the category of art as capacious, and capable of dismantling our concept of mastery. They offer concrete advice on writing—from tone, to endings, clarity, and decisive punctuation—and speak about their own writerly process, in which ideas often manifest first in poetry and later in prose.

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"A Critique of What Art Can Do”: Jennifer Nelson on Undoing Mastery

"A Critique of What Art Can Do”: Jennifer Nelson on Undoing Mastery

Jennifer Nelson