Professor, History of Art
Wednesday 8 October
4 p.m.
Room TBA (likely HGS 204)
We will read and discuss an excerpt from Alexander Nemerov’s Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures (University of California Press, 2005). Focus will be on the Introduction and Chapter One, “The Madonna of the Backyard.” We hope this will be a wide-ranging discussion of his study, with special consideration of the writerly challenges of incorporating visual artifacts–particularly film–into historical analysis. All are welcome.
Alexander Nemerov is Professor in the History of Art at Yale, where he researches and teaches on American visual culture from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth century. Painting, film, sculpture, theater, and literary works are among his subjects of study. His previous publications include The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824 (2001) and Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century America (1995).
