Online
This virtual talk centers upon Sonia Delaunay-Terk’s Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France, as scholar S. Hollis Clayson traces the strong cultural impact of the Eiffel Tower on artists of the later nineteenth century and on into the twentieth century.
Moderated by curator Laurel Garber.
Speaker
S. Hollis Clayson is a historian of modern art who specializes in 19th-century Europe and transatlantic exchanges between France and the U.S. She is Professor Emerita of Art History and Bergen Evans Professor Emerita in the Humanities at Northwestern University. She is the author of Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era and, her new book, Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Époque. In 2013, she curated the exhibition ELECTRIC PARIS at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA. Her current project is The Inescapability of the Eiffel Tower.
Laurel Garber is the Park Family Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings.
Sponsored by the Graduate Guides.