July 13, 2020 at 2:35pm
Pioneering art historian Frank Popper, whose writings were among the first to explore the relationship between modern art and technology, has died at age one hundred and two in Lugano, Switzerland. In addition to helping lay the groundwork for discourses concerning new media and ethics in his later writing on what he called the “virtualization” of art, Popper influenced countless historians and artists with scholarship conducted in the 1960s, when he published early analyses of light and movement in contemporary art.
