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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
CONTACT: Mary Anthony
March 20, 2008
Final Event of the 2007-08 Stieren Art
Enrichment Series to Honor
Trinity University Professor Emeritus Charles Talbot
SAN ANTONIO – Distinguished art historians Thomas Cummins and Claire Fargo will present the final event of the 2007-08 Stieren Arts Enrichment Series, “The Places of Art: A Symposium in Honor of Charles Talbot” at 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 18, in Trinity University’s Ruth Taylor Recital Hall. The lecture which honors Charles Talbot, who recently retired after 20 years as a professor of Art History at Trinity University, is free and open to the public.
During his career, Professor Talbot’s teaching and research interests concerned primarily the art of Germany, the Netherlands, and France from the middle ages to the Baroque era. After coming to Trinity, he began studying and teaching the art and architecture of New and Old Spain. In his retirement, Professor Talbot continues to work on a book on how Albrecht Dürer made printmaking a form of high art and on another book about the function of “excess” in the Spanish/Mexican Baroque retablo.
Dr. Cummins is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art and chair of the department of the history of art and architecture at Harvard University. He has recently published books on the only three extensively illustrated manuscripts from Peru, early Ecuadorian ceramic figurines, and late Pre-Columbian systems of knowledge and representation.
Dr. Fargo is a professor of Renaissance art, theory, and criticism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has published widely on art history and historiography, and is a leading authority on the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci. Her publications include: Leonardo da Vinci’s Paragone: A Critical Interpretation, Reframing the Renaissance: A Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America 1450-1650 and Compelling Visuality: The Work of Art In and Out of History.
The Stieren Arts Enrichment Series brings to Trinity’s campus a distinguished array of outstanding leaders in the fields of art, music, drama, communication, literature, art history, and aesthetics. It is made possible through an endowment created by Jane and the late Arthur Stieren of San Antonio.
For more information, contact Trinity’s Office of University Communications at 210-999-8406.
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