John Plotz awarded Guggenheim

Professor John Plotz has been awarded a fellowship from the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation. 

The fellowship, meant for the 2011-2012 school year, was awarded for Plotz's current academic project, a book entitled Semi-Detached: The Aesthetic of Partial Absorption.  The book explores the audience's experience of art –– what it means to be partly absorbed in a work.  Artwork, in the view of Semi-Detached, may run the gamut from Victorian paintings to the recent phenomenon of Second Life.  What happens to us when we lose ourselves in what we know to be artifice?  >More