10-04-95 Saturday Scholars Series Announced

SATURDAY SCHOLARS LECTURE SERIES OPENS OCT. 21

 	COLUMBUS -- Have you ever considered the meaning of 
"meaning" in art?  How art communicates with the viewer?  Or, 
how jokes, pranks and riddles began?

	These and other topics will be discussed during a series of 
four Saturday morning conversations about the influences of 
popular culture on life and art presented by The Ohio State 
University's College of Humanities and the Wexner Center for the 
Arts.

	Held at 10 a.m. in the Film/Video Theatre in the Wexner 
Center, the lectures are free and open to all.

	The series opens Oct. 21 with a talk by Professor Emeritus 
Michael Geis of the Department of Linguistics on "The Meaning of 
'Meaning' in Art." This talk examines two claims that suggest 
that art is communicative in nature and has meaning, from the 
perspective of contemporary research in linguistics and the 
philosophy of religion.  

	The second presentation, to be held Oct. 28, will feature 
Assistant Professor Lee Brown of the Department of Philosophy who 
will discuss visual art in its transition from high modernism to 
the post modernism of the 1960s.

	In the third presentation, on Nov. 11, Assistant Professor 
Linda Mizejewski of the Department of English will explore how 
"camp" and "pop" are different but overlapping cultural 
movements, and the vision of the world as a cartoon.

	The concluding lecture, on Nov. 18, will feature Associate 
Professor Emeritus Dan Barnes of the Department of English who 
will look at the traditional humor of folk and popular culture.

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Contact:  Shari Lorbach, College of the Humanities,
         (614) 292-1882.


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