Past Events
The 'New Woman' in Impressionist Painting and Visual Culture
4th Annual Distinguished Scholar Lecture in Art History
featuring Dr. Ruth E. Iskin
Wednesday, September 30, 8:00 pm, in the Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center
Ruth E. Iskin (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) will explore whether Impressionist painting represented the "New Woman" and how the latter's images functioned in diverse genres of visual culture, from caricatures to posters and photographs. By looking at a broad range of visual representations that circulated in the late nineteenth-century, the talk probes images as intervening in discourses, arguing that the latter were shaped across a dynamic field of art and print culture.
Professor Iskin is a Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow at The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, The National Gallery of Art. Her areas of research include Impressionist painting and consumer culture; nineteenth century art, graphic arts and culture; gender and modernity. She teaches nineteenth-century art and visual culture; women's art; and museum and curatorial studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She has held an Andrew W. Melon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Penn Humanities Forum, the University of Pennsylvania; The Ahmanson-Getty Research Fellowship at the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, and The Killam Memorial Fellowship at the University of British Columbia. Her book, Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture, has been published by Cambridge University Press (2007), and her essays have appeared in journals, anthologies and museum exhibition catalogues.
