- Adrian Piper
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name = Adrian Margaret Smith Piper
birth_date = Birth date and age|1948|9|20|mf=y
birth_place =New York ,New York , U.S.Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (born
September 20 ,1948 ) is a first-generationconceptual art ist who began exhibiting her work internationally at the age of twenty and graduated from theSchool of Visual Arts in 1969. While continuing to produce and exhibit her artwork, she received a B.A. inPhilosophy from theCity College of New York in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy fromHarvard University in 1981 under the supervision ofJohn Rawls ; and studiedKant andHegel with Dieter Henrich at theUniversity of Heidelberg in 1977-1978.Adrian has taught Philosophy at Georgetown, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford, and UCSD. Following in the steps of trailblazing pioneer
Dr. Joyce Mitchell Cook , in 1987 Adrian became the first tenured African American woman professor in the field of philosophy. For her refusal to return to the United States while listed as a Suspicious Traveler on the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s Watch List, Wellesley College forcibly terminated her tenured full professorship in philosophy in 2008. Her principal philosophical publications are in metaethics, Kant, and the history of ethics. Her two-volume study in Kantian metaethics, "Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Part I: The Humean Conception" and "Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Part II: A Kantian Conception", accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press, integrates desire into reason and standard decision theory into classical predicate logic.Adrian introduced issues of race and gender into the vocabulary of
Conceptual art as well as explicit political content intoMinimalism . In 2000 she further expanded the vocabulary ofConceptual art to include Hindu philosophical imagery and concepts. Her artwork is in many important collections. Her sixth traveling retrospective, "Adrian Piper since 1965", closed at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona in 2004. Her two-volume collection, "OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT: Selected Writings in Meta-Art and Art Criticism 1967 – 1992" (MIT Press, 1996), is now available in paperback.Adrian began her study and practice of
Yoga in 1965 with the Upanishads and Swami Vishnudevananda’s Complete Book of Yoga. She studied with Swami Satchidananda from 1966, became a svanistha in 1971 and a brahmacharin in 1985. Since then she has studied at Kripalu with Gitanand and with Arthur Kilmurray, Patricia Walden, Chuck Miller, Erich Schiffmann, Leslie Bogart, Richard Freeman, Tim Miller, David Swenson, Gary Kraftsow, Georg Feuerstein, David Frawley, and John Friend. She lives and works inBerlin , where she runs the Adrian Piper Research Archive.External links
* [http://www.adrianpiper.com Adrian Piper Research Archive]
* [http://www.elizabethdeegallery.com/artists/view/adrian-piper Adrian Piper Exhibition at Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York]
* [http://www.adrianpiper.com/rss "Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Part I: The Humean Conception" and "Rationality and the Structure of the Self, Part II: A Kantian Conception"]
* [http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262661543 "OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT: Selected Writings in Meta-Art and Art Criticism 1967 – 1992" (MIT Press, 1996)]
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