Dates:
May 12, 2010
Repeats every Wednesday until May 26, 2010.
Times:
Wednesdays, 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Location:
The Strand Theatre, Rockland
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ACHIEVING AMERICAN ART: Fifty Years of Change and Challenge
9-Week Lecture Series, Wednesdays, March 31 – May 26, 10 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.
at The Strand Theater, Rockland
Presented by Director of Education, Roger Dell & Guest Scholars
SERIES OVERVIEW
The Farnsworth is pleased to present Achieving American Art: Fifty Years of Change and Challenge, the third installment in this popular, annual lecture series. The 2010 course will focus on the art of the nation from 1945 to the present. The series will be divided into three sections by media (painting and drawing, architecture and photography) and will be presented by Farnsworth staff members and guest speakers from museums and colleges. The Farnsworth’s Director of Education Roger Dell will host the series, providing an introduction for each guest lecturer’s presentation. The same ninety-minute lecture will be offered twice every Wednesday (10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.) at The Strand Theatre in Rockland.
This series is sponsored in part by The Strand Theatre.
SECTION III—PHOTOGRAPHY
May 12
Postwar American Photographs of the 1950's, 60's & 70's
Lecture by Brenton Hamilton, Photography Program Director, Maine Media College
These turbulent decades of societal change are demonstrated profoundly in the context of American photography. Frederick Sommer, Robert Frank and Chauncey Hare are three contemporaries with three distinct voices describing what they observed and experienced in America.
May 19
Transcendental Visions, Topographic Views: Photographic Representations of the American Landscape
Linda Docherty is Associate Professor of Art History at Bowdoin College
In the 1970s, photographers began to challenge the classic image of the American landscape as wondrous, harmonious, and pristine. Informed by the burgeoning environmental movement, they reinterpreted nature as inseparable from culture and eschewed emphasis on aesthetic form.
May 26
Picturing Gotham: New York Photography in the 1950’s and 1960’s
Lecture by Farnsworth Director of Education Roger Dell
Among the various types of photography, such as fashion, portraiture, reportage—street photography held special interest for many New York photographers in the middle of the 20th century. Ranging all over the city, these urbanist photographers captured middle class life from Harlem to the Lower East Side.
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Phone Number:
207-596-0949
Base Price: $28.00