The Yale University Art Gallery will host a lecture and symposium on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29 and 30, in conjunction with its current exhibition "Livable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design During the Great Depression."
A lecture on "Modernism as a Way of Life" will open the two-day program at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. Neil Harris, the Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of History at the University of Chicago, will present the talk, which is the 13th annual Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Lecture in American Art. The event is free and open to the public. Due to the ongoing restoration of the gallery's Louis Kahn building, the talk will take place in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. Seating is limited.
On Saturday, modernist scholars and design historians will take part in the Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque Memorial Symposium, "American Modernist Design, 1920-1940: New Perspectives," which will be held in the Law School's Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St.
The event will begin at 10 a.m. with welcoming remarks by Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz Director of the Yale Art Gallery, and Kristina Wilson, assistant professor of art history at Clark University and curator of the "Livable Modernism" exhibit.
There will be seven presentations: "Paul T. Frankl and the Making of Modern American Design, 1920-1926," "Selling Good Design: New York Department Stores and the Early Modern Interior," "Merchandising the Modern: Gilbert Rohde at Herman Miller," "Chase Chrome: Poor Man's Sterling for the Modern Era," "Designing for Young Moderns: Nurseries by Ilonka Karasz," "Educating the Eye: Body Mechanics, Streamlining and Consumer Tastes in the U.S. 1925-1940" and "'Make us forget our bounds': Visual Space and Psychic Release in the Modern American Interior."
A roundtable discussion among the speakers and the audience will also highlight the event, which concludes at 4:30 p.m.
Registration is required. The fee (which includes a boxed lunch) is $25 per person; $10 for members of the Yale Art Museums; and free for students with a valid I.D. For registration information, contact Nancy Yates at (203) 432-0615 or nancy.yates@yale.edu.
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