Yeager Recital Hall
7:00 p.m.
Art History at Elon Speaker Series
Dr. Mary Sheriff, Chair of the Art Department at UNC-Chapel Hill, has written and edited many books on European art including The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art and Fragonard: Art and Eroticism. Sheriff has significantly altered the way French art from the Rococo period is understood through her research into contemporaneous texts and images from the perspective of current psychoanalytic and gender theories. She will talk specifically about the research for her most recent book, Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France.