Sun November 23, 2014
Imagining Everyday Life in the Young US: Margaretta Lovell and David Henkin in Conversation
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BAM/PFA Galleries. Included with admission.
Art historian Margaretta Lovell and social historian David Henkin, both professors at UC Berkeley, offer a rich context for the artwork on view in American Wonder. They will discuss pre-Civil War American society and culture, touching on such issues as individual and community identity, rituals of mourning, schoolgirl skills, professional penmanship, and the role of domestic animals.
Margaretta Lovell, the Jay D. McEvoy Professor of Art History at UC Berkeley, received her PhD from Yale and specializes in American and British art, architecture, design, and literature. Her books include the prizewinners Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America and A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists and Writers. Her current project is a book on the antebellum landscape painter Fitz H. Lane.
David Henkin, who holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, specializes in American society and culture of the nineteenth century. He is a professor in the Department of History at UC Berkeley and is the author of City Reading: Written Words and Public Space in Antebellum New York, The Postal Age: The Emergence of Mass Communications in Nineteenth-Century America, and Becoming America: A History for the 21st Century. His current project is a study of seven-day rhythms in nineteenth-century America.
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Art historian Margaretta Lovell and social historian David Henkin, both professors at UC Berkeley, offer a rich context for the artwork on view in American Wonder. They will discuss pre-Civil War American society and culture, touching on such issues as individual and community identity, rituals of mourning, schoolgirl skills, professional penmanship, and the role of domestic animals.
Margaretta Lovell, the Jay D. McEvoy Professor of Art History at UC Berkeley, received her PhD from Yale and specializes in American and British art, architecture, design, and literature. Her books include the prizewinners Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America and A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists and Writers. Her current project is a book on the antebellum landscape painter Fitz H. Lane.
David Henkin, who holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, specializes in American society and culture of the nineteenth century. He is a professor in the Department of History at UC Berkeley and is the author of City Reading: Written Words and Public Space in Antebellum New York, The Postal Age: The Emergence of Mass Communications in Nineteenth-Century America, and Becoming America: A History for the 21st Century. His current project is a study of seven-day rhythms in nineteenth-century America.
BAM/PFA Galleries. Included with admission.
Art historian Margaretta Lovell and social historian David Henkin, both professors at UC Berkeley, offer a rich context for the artwork on view in American Wonder. They will discuss pre-Civil War American society and culture, touching on such issues as individual and community identity, rituals of mourning, schoolgirl skills, professional penmanship, and the role of domestic animals.
Margaretta Lovell, the Jay D. McEvoy Professor of Art History at UC Berkeley, received her PhD from Yale and specializes in American and British art, architecture, design, and literature. Her books include the prizewinners Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America and A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists and Writers. Her current project is a book on the antebellum landscape painter Fitz H. Lane.
David Henkin, who holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, specializes in American society and culture of the nineteenth century. He is a professor in the Department of History at UC Berkeley and is the author of City Reading: Written Words and Public Space in Antebellum New York, The Postal Age: The Emergence of Mass Communications in Nineteenth-Century America, and Becoming America: A History for the 21st Century. His current project is a study of seven-day rhythms in nineteenth-century America.
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Art historian Margaretta Lovell and social historian David Henkin, both professors at UC Berkeley, offer a rich context for the artwork on view in American Wonder. They will discuss pre-Civil War American society and culture, touching on such issues as individual and community identity, rituals of mourning, schoolgirl skills, professional penmanship, and the role of domestic animals.
Margaretta Lovell, the Jay D. McEvoy Professor of Art History at UC Berkeley, received her PhD from Yale and specializes in American and British art, architecture, design, and literature. Her books include the prizewinners Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America and A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists and Writers. Her current project is a book on the antebellum landscape painter Fitz H. Lane.
David Henkin, who holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, specializes in American society and culture of the nineteenth century. He is a professor in the Department of History at UC Berkeley and is the author of City Reading: Written Words and Public Space in Antebellum New York, The Postal Age: The Emergence of Mass Communications in Nineteenth-Century America, and Becoming America: A History for the 21st Century. His current project is a study of seven-day rhythms in nineteenth-century America.
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