From Breakthrough to Cul de Sac: Recent Developments in the Social History of Art, a lecture, recorded on April 10, 2006 at the School of Visual Arts, in which Thomas McEvilley traces historical, political and aesthetic parallels and collisions between the modern and the postmodern (and the role of money in all this). McEvilley is chair of SVA's Art Criticism and Writing Department. He holds a Ph.D. in classical philology and has published widely on subjects from early Greek poetry, philosophy, and religion to contemporary art and culture including monographs on Yves Klein, Jannis Kounellis, and Pat Steir. (80 minutes)