James Hyde on “The Trouble with Space in Painting.”.

A talk in which painter James Hyde discusses his new book, The Trouble with Space in Painting: A Critical History, presented by the SVA Honors Program and BFA Visual and Critical Studies. The book is described as the first critical study of pictorial space as a modern historical construction, developing in philosophy, mathematics, science and theories of art. Hyde is an American painter who has worked in New York City since the late 1970s, with works in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Brooklyn Museum.