Each year, the Division of Arts and Humanities celebrates its faculty who have recently been promoted to the rank of professor by asking each to present a public lecture on his or her body of research or creative activity and current projects. Professor Lisa Florman, History of Art, will present The End of Tradition as Traditionally Conceived, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. This lecture will explore the dramatic changes that artistic “tradition” underwent in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Florman argues that understanding the relation of Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon to earlier works of art (including works outside of the Western tradition) may also help us think through some of the complexities of the multicultural and transcultural work being produced today. The lecture and recpetion are free and open to the public.
For more information and a full listing of 2013-2014 Inaugural Lectures
