Polina Dimova ∆; Jeremy Stolow ∆; John Lee Clark ∆; Lida Zeitlin-Wu ∆

This “meet the author” roundtable has a unique format. Instead of presenting their own work, each author will offer an appreciation of the work of the author with whom they are paired. The first pair consists of Jeremy Stolow commenting on Polina Dimova’s At the Crossroads of the Senses: the Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism, followed by Polina Dimova presenting a review of Jeremy Stolow’s Picturing Aura. The “crosstalk” in this case consists of juxtaposing the notion of aura with that of synaesthesia. The second pair is comprised of Lida Zeitlin- Wu commenting on John Lee Clark’s Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays. John Lee Clark will then present a reading of the chapter entitled “What’s Your Color? Mood-Conditioning the Postwar Domestic Interior” in Lida Zeitlin-Wu’s work-in-progress How Color Became a Technology: The Making of Chromatic Capitalism. The “crosstalk” here involves interrogating the “distantism” complex and the “colorism” complex from opposite angles.