Robin Kelsey: Andy Warhol and Photography

Starts: December 4, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Location: Andrews Hall, room 101
Event URL: www.wm.edu/muscarelle
Contact: [[jfadkins, Janaye Adkins]]

Summary

In conjunction with the ongoing Andy Warhol exhibit at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, Harvard University professor Robin Kelsey will present a lecture, "Mechanical Pressures: Warhol and Photography in America during the Cold War."

Full Description

Robin Kelsey is Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography and Director of Graduate Studies in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Harvard University. He is also a member of the Committee on Higher Degrees in the History of American Civilization and a Faculty Associate of the Center for the Environment. His book, Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890, was published in 2007 by the University of California Press, and his book on photography and chance is scheduled to appear, also from UC Press, in 2010. With Blake Stimson, he co-edited a book entitled The Meaning of Photography, published by the Clark Art Institute and Yale University Press in 2008.