Benton: Annual Mittelman Lecture: Sarah Burns
Thursday, November 15, 2018
5:30pm – 7:30pm
5:30 Cocktails and light hors d'oeuvres
6:00 Talk commences
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The Annual Gene and Georgia Mittelman Lecture in the Arts.
“(Self) Portrait of the Artist as a Mad Witch: Being Gertrude Abercrombie”
Sarah Burns, Ruth N. Halls Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, will present her research on Chicago artist Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977).
Sarah Burns is Professor Emerita of Art History at Indiana University in Bloomington. She holds a Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Burns has published widely: she is the author of Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (Philadelphia, 1989); Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America (New Haven, 1996); and Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2004). In 2008-9, she held the Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship in American Art History at the Newberry Library in Chicago where she researched the dark side of modernism in America between the world wars. Other honors include the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Inventing the Modern Artist, and the Charles Rufus Morey Prize for Painting the Dark Side.
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