Please join us Sunday, March 23 at 5pm at the National Humanities Center (1st-floor seminar room). Dore Bowen, Research Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke, will be discussing a chapter from her current book project, The Diorama Effect: Spectacles of Longing from the 19th Century to the Present. A study of the evolution of this form of visual spectacle in the modern era, the book identifies how dioramas produce “a unique experience of time that recycles past events as if occurring in the present.”
The chapter–“Picturing Animals and Others at the Musée du duc d’Orléans (1928–1959)”–is currently available on the password-protected Papers page of this website. Please contact a co-convener for this month’s password.