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2023-04-25 22:00
2023-04-25 23:30
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Cripping Things in Late Nineteenth-Century Art
Cripping Things in Late Nineteenth-Century ArtThe Iris Foundation Awards Lecture by Elizabeth Guffey (SUNY Purchase)Monet was going blind and had to wear special cataract glasses.Renoir became so arthritic, he used a wheelchair and had paintbrushes strappe
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The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture by Elizabeth Guffey (SUNY Purchase)
Monet was going blind and had to wear special cataract glasses. Renoir became so arthritic, he used a wheelchair and had paintbrushes strapped to his wrists. The history of French impressionist art is filled with legends about its most famous practitioners, their bodily impairments, and the ways these were believed to have shaped their art. This lecture uses the French impressionists and their art to introduce the notion of crip objects. In so doing, it suggests that material objects related to disability are useful in helping us understand a range of issues related to human embodiment and the sensorium, all the while raising more complex questions about artistic creativity.
Tue, Apr 25, 2023 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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