Monday, October 24
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, “Righting Biography: Race, Religion, and the Internet in the Revision of American Art History”
Yeager Recital Hall, 6 p.m.
How has the Internet age changed the possibilities for the writing of American art history? Can ever-increasing access to census records, maps and books significantly change our approaches to studying works of art and the lives of the artists who made them? This talk investigates the ways that newly digitized archives and reference materials can change our understanding of artists who might otherwise have remained enigmas and works that have existed without explanation through an in-depth discussion of the Harlem Renaissance-era artist Sargent Johnson and his 1940 lithograph “Singing Saints.”