The World as I found it: On the First-Person Point of View

Andrei Pop is a professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. His books include Antiquity, Theatre, and the Painting of Henry Fuseli (2015) and, more recently, A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century (2019). He co-edited a volume on Ugliness: The Non-Beautiful in Art and Theory (2013) with Mechtild Widrich, with whom he has also edited and translated Karl Rosenkranz’s 1853 German treatise on the Aesthetics of Ugliness (2015).