Pocahontas in Image and Myth

Legends and images of Pocahontas, the young Native American woman who reportedly rescued Captain John Smith of the Jamestown settlement in the early 1600s, became popular in Western culture during her lifetime and continue to evolve into the present day. This lecture examines representations of this renowned yet elusive historical figure in the context of…

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Winslow Homer’s Civil War

Widely regarded as one of America’s greatest artists, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) first gained national recognition for insightful paintings and illustrations about the Civil War. Informed by his first-hand observations at the Union front in Virginia, Homer adopted an unconventional approach to representing war: instead of depicting dramatic battle scenes and heroic military leaders, he humanized…

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Teacher Workshop: Art in the Modern World: Connect

Robert Rauschenburg once commented “I think art is more like the real world when it’s made out of the real world.” In this workshop, you’ll explore this thought by considering how artists use found objects to transform materials as they pursue powerful new meanings. By looking closely at works by ground-breaking artists, including Robert Rauschenberg,…

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Classicism and Contemporary Art

As a student of the nineteenth century, and as a one-time student of the Classical world, I am intrigued by Aby Warburg’s “afterlife” or “survival” of antiquity unto our own time. The artists I will discuss are drawing upon Classical and Neoclassical artworks and motifs, reactivating them to question, critique, and explore the artistic and…

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Classicism and Modern and Contemporary Art

As a student of the nineteenth century, particularly the Neoclassical era (ca. 1750 – 1815), and as a one-time student of the Classical world, I am intrigued by Aby Warburg’s “afterlife” or “survival” of antiquity unto our own time. The artists I will discuss are drawing upon Classical and Neoclassical art works and motifs, reactivating…

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Neoclassicism

The Neoclassical era (ca. 1750 – 1815) was when two distinct moments in time, classical antiquity and the mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth century, were connected through art, architecture, and literature. Classical art from the Greco-Roman period had a strong influence upon the art of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Artists working in this style were…

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Orson Welles and “It’s All True!”

Welles was perhaps the most fascinating filmmaking maverick in Hollywood who was, in the words of Martin Scorsese, “responsible for inspiring more people to be film directors than anyone else in history of the cinema.”  This presentation shows images from his career plus focusses a complex story of his ill-fated attempts to make an anthology…

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