Andrei Pop

Andrei Pop studies the nature of art and what role it plays in both the good life and the bad. He is interested in the relation of art and science, in dramatic and narrative art (from Plato to science fiction), and in how modernity deals with the past. He had published books on the English-Swiss romantic classicist painter Henry Fuseli, on Edgar Allan Poe and the artists he inspired, and on the surprising aesthetic implications of the work of the logician Gottlob Frege. With Mechtild Widrich, he has also translated Karl Rosenkranz’s 1853 Aesthetics of Ugliness into English and edited a volume of essays on ugliness across time. Along with Art History, Pop serves on the faculty for UChicago’s graduate Social Thought program and the College’s Fundamentals program.