AGWA Talks | Continental Shift
As part of the Continental Shift exhibition, AGWA is hosting a series of public talks.
Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting: A Cultural History
Speaker: Peter John Brownlee
1-2pm, Sunday 31 July
Hear from Curator PJ Brownlee of the Terra Foundation for American Art, as part of the opening weekend of Continental Shift. This lecture surveys major developments in the evolution of landscape painting in the United States with a comparative eye to concurrent developments in Australia. Analysing key works by major artists, the talk will explore themes and trends in American art and cultural history, including the emergence and aesthetics of landscape tourism, urbanisation and industrialisation, westward expansion and removal of Indigenous peoples, and the scientific and philosophical preoccupations of landscape painting after 1850.
Styles of Expeditionary Landscape: Picturing the Rocky Mountain West, 1819-20
Speaker: Professor Kenneth Haltman, Art History, University of Oklahoma
2-3pm, Sunday 25 September
Seeing Nature, Knowing the World, or, Why Paint a Landscape?
Speaker: Associate Professor Rachael Z. DeLue, American Art, Princeton University
11am-12pm, Sunday 9 October
Why paint a landscape? This lecture considers how artists from various time periods and regions approached the representation of nature as a unique way of seeing and understanding the world. Examples from America, Australia, and Europe demonstrate how translating nature into pictorial form-as a geographer would through topographic surveys and maps-provided artists and their audiences with a way of deriving profound meaning from nature’s infinitely varied and complex phenomena and forms.
- 1-2pm, Sunday 31 July and 2-3pm, 25 September and 11am-12pm, 9 October 2016
- AGWA Theatrette
- FREE | bookings required
