Date/Time
Date(s) - 28 Jan 2014
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Location
Schermerhorn Hall
Category(ies) No Categories
Mellon Fellow/Lecturer, Dr. Shira Brisman’s, The Body of a Letter.
Tuesday, January 28
12:15 in Schermerhorn 934
Lunch will be provided.
Description:
The experience of writing, sending, and receiving letters shaped how Albrecht Dürer reflected upon the message-bearing properties of the work of art. Focusing on the correspondences that Dürer sent from Venice in 1506, I propose a way of connecting Dürer’s use of epistolary conventions with the visual strategies by which he address his audiences. Balancing intimacy with public address and proximity with distance, certain images by Dürer mimic the letter’s ability to connect author and recipient, directing through dialectics of advertisement and concealment how individuals address one another and how communities construct their borders.
Bio:
Shira Brisman’s research focuses on European art from the early modern period. Her recent projects investigate the boundaries between privacy and society, patterns and abberations, religious modes of thinking and categories of secularization. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts; the Albrecht Dürer Scholarship at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum; the American Council of Learned Societies and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.