“The Magic Art of Framing”: Alexander Nemerov on Writing History and Making a World

In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing

03/05/24 • 41 min

This is the first episode of a new season focused on the craft of writing in art history. Sara Houghteling (special projects coordinator for the Research and Academic Program and a fiction writer) speaks with Alexander Nemerov, professor of art history at Stanford University, about his most recent book, The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s. He discusses his writing process, how his craft has changed over time, and this current book’s varied sources of inspiration—from painting and poetry to time spent in nature and pilgrimages to historical sites.

03/05/24 • 41 min

In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing - “The Magic Art of Framing”: Alexander Nemerov on Writing History and Making a World

Transcript

Caroline Fowler: Welcome to In the Foreground: Conversations on Art and Writing. I am Caro Fowler, your host and director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In this series of conversations, I talk with art historians and artists about what it means to write history and make art, and the ways in which making informs how we create not only our world, but also ourselves.

Sara Houghteling:

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