POSTPONED, new date to be posted soon.<br />Hollis Clayson: “Episodes from Parisian Visual Culture in the Era of Thomas Edison”

Hollis Clayson: “Episodes from Parisian Visual Culture in the Era of Thomas Edison”

Hollis Clayson is professor of art history and Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. She specializes in the social history of nineteenth-century art rooted in Paris and in transatlantic exchanges between France and the U.S. Her publications include Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era (Los Angeles, 1991; reprint 2003); a co-edited thematic study, Understanding Paintings: Themes in Art Explored and Explained (New York, 2000; translated into six other languages); and Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life Under Siege (1870--71) (Chicago, 2002). She has most recently written three essays investigating the arts of privacy and the interior. Her current research focuses upon U.S. artists in Paris (1870-1914) and their preoccupation with night in the City of Light.

Sponsored by:

- le groupe de recherche Technologies, Media, and Representation in Nineteenth-Century France and England
- la Chaire de recherche du Canada en histoire de l’art du XIXe siècle de l’Université de Montréal
- le Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques de l’Université de Montréal
- McGill University’s Department of Art History and Communications Studies
- le Centre de recherche sur l’intermédialité