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Art Seminar and Lectures
March 7-16
"The Rise of Pictorial Genres"
Classroom I: Art Bldg.,
Next to Allen Memorial Art Museum, on Main St.
Seminar classes:
4:30 to 6 p.m
Wednesday, March 7,
Friday, March 9,
Monday, March 12,
Tuesday, March 13,
Wednesday, March 14, and
Friday, March 16
Lectures: 8 p.m.
Thursday, March 8
I "Flemish Art at the Crossroads: The Early 16th
Century"
Thursday, March 15
II
"Town and Country: The Concept of Landscape
in Early Antwerp Art"
GUEST EXPERT TO CONDUCT ART HISTORY SEMINAR AT OBERLIN COLLEGE MARCH 7-16
FEBRUARY 21, 2001--Free and open to the public March 7-16 will be a seminar at Oberlin College conducted by Larry Silver, one of the country’s leading experts in art history.
Titled "The Rise of Pictorial Genres," the program will include six afternoon classes and two related evening lectures, and it will be presented under the auspices of the art department’s Baldwin Lecture Fund.
Silver is Farquhar professor of art history at the University of Pennsylvania. His particular areas of interest are Dutch and Flemish prints and paintings of the early modern period and German prints and paintings in the era of the Reformation.
During the seminar, he will discuss the origins and meanings of generic easel painting categories--landscapes, peasant scenes, moneychangers, and still lifes--over the course of the 16th century in Flanders and Holland.
Special attention will be paid to the development of printmaking and its relation to easel painting. The process of defining pictorial conventions amid market developments will draw analogies to the modern medium of Hollywood cinema and its own conventionalized genres, e.g. horror, gangsters and Westerns.
Silver has served on the faculties of Berkeley and Northwestern universities and as a visiting professor at Smith College. He is a former president of the College Art Association (1992-94) and the Historians of Netherlandish Art (1999-2001) and is editor of the on-line CAA reviews journal, caa.reviews. He also authored a general survey, Art in History (1993).
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