Mary Sheriff, chair of the art department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will discuss research for her latest book at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 7 in Yeager Recital Hall, located in the Center for the Arts on the Elon University campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Sheriff’s latest book is titled “Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France.” She 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’s work has significantly altered the way French art from the Rococo period is understood, largely through her research into texts and images from the perspective of current psychoanalytic and gender theories.