Yale Bulletin and Calendar

September 27-October 4, 1999

Volume 28, Number 6

Scholars will share views on
modernist art and photography

Modernist art and photography in the 1920s will be explored in a panel discussion on Friday, Oct. 1, 4-6 p.m. at the Yale University Art Gallery, corner of Chapel and York streets.

During the discussion, titled "Photographic Views: Developing a Language of Abstraction for Equivalents," each panelist will present his or her perspectives on modernist art. The event, which is free and open to the public, is being offered in conjunction with the current exhibition "Alfred Stieglitz and the Equivalent: Reinventing the Nature of Photography."

The speakers and their topics are Carol Armstrong, the Doris Stevens Professor of Women's Studies and art history at Princeton University, who will talk on the metonymy and metaphor in the photography of Tina Modotti and Edward Weston; Langdon Hammer, associate professor of English at Yale, whose theme will be "Stieglitz, Hart Crane and Abstract Form"; and Jonathan Weinberg, whose talk is titled "The Hands of the Artist: Alfred Stieglitz's Photographs of Georgia O'Keefe." David Cornell, the Selden Fellow in the department of prints, drawings and photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery, who is curator of the Stieglitz exhibition, will moderate.

Prior to the discussion, Cornell will lead a tour of the exhibition at 3 p.m. This event is also free and open to the public.

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