A Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Art, Julia Bryan-Wilson intends in her dissertation, Art/Work: Artistic Labor and Institutional Critique in the Age of Vietnam, 1966-1975, to track the emergence of notions of art as work in the late 1960s. Drawing on art history, social movements, and political philosophy, Bryan-Wilson examines what she sees as the utopian urge of artmaking and organizing, seeking evidence of alignments of the aesthetic and political avant-gardes. An intellectual history which maps the reception of Marcuse during the 1960s is central to the analytic frame of the dissertation, which poses theoretical question about the nature of artistic activism within a historical context.