Art History Events
ArtsCanisius events include visual arts lectures and shows featuring artists in the community and at Canisius College.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
2:30 P.M/ REGIS
Art History Lecture
“Beyond the Photographic Frame: Curating Contemporary Polish Photography”
Magdalena Durda-Dmitruk, curator
Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland
The lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Durda-Dmitruk curated, “The Outskirts of the Photographic Image: Wojnecki-Prazmowski-Dabrowski,” which includes the work of three of the most visible artists working in Poland today.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
2:30 P.M./ REGIS
Meet-the-Faculty
“What Michelangelo Learned in Bologna”
Martha Dunkelman, art history
An examination of how the young Michelangelo’s year in the city of Bologna contributed to his early works, including the famous Rome Pieta, in unexpected ways.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
2:30 P.M./ REGIS
Art History Lecture
“Photomontage, Gender and the Bauhaus”
Elizabeth Otto, Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, SUNY at Buffalo
A lecture on the art and artists of the Bauhaus, the avant-garde arts academy that flourished in Germany from 1919 until its forced closing in 1933 by the National Socialists.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
2:30 P.M./ REGIS
Meet-the-Faculty
Justine Price, art history
“Roy Lichtenstein: Post-Pop Painterly”
American artist Roy Lichtenstein created many of the iconic works of Pop art of the post-War era. The artist’s first ambition, however, was to have been a painter in the tradition of the Abstract Expressionists. A prolonged encounter with his Pop work reveals his abstract desires to be hiding in plain sight.