March
21, 2003 Visual
Literacy Series Continues with Giuliana Bruno March 27
Giuliana Bruno, professor
of visual and environmental studies at Harvard University, will
be the next speaker in The Culture and Nature of the Visual,
the College’s yearlong lecture series on visual studies.
Bruno will present a talk titled “Atlas of Emotion: Journeys
in Art, Architecture, and Film” Thursday, March 27, at 4:30
pm in Gamble Auditorium. A reception will follow. The lecture
and a related faculty seminar are cosponsored by the Office of
the Dean of Faculty and the Harriet L. and Paul M. Weissman Center
for Leadership.
Derived from Bruno’s book of the same title, the scholar’s
lecture will address the relationship of cinema to architecture,
travel culture, and the making of narrative space in contemporary
visual arts. It will connect “seeing” and “traveling,”
emphasizing that not only “sight” and “site”
but also “motion” and “emotion” are irrevocably
connected.
“Giuliana Bruno is among the most exciting scholars in this
emerging field of visual culture today,” says Associate
Professor of Art and series coorganizer Anthony Lee. “She
ranges almost effortlessly across film, architecture, painting,
photography, maps and urban design, and moves back and forth in
historical time without a hitch. We are very pleased she is taking
part in our series and faculty seminar.”
In addition to Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture,
and Film (Verso, 2002), Bruno has written Streetwalking
on a Ruined Map (Princeton University Press, 1993), winner
of the 1993 Katherine Singer Kovács prize for the best
book in film studies. She is also coeditor of Off Screen (Routledge,
1988) and Immigini allo schermo (Rosenberg and Sellier,
1991). Her writing on art, architecture, and film has been published
in collections internationally.
The Culture and Nature of the Visual continues April
24 with “Polemic in the Spaces of Public Memory,”
a talk by James Young, professor of English and chair of Judaic
studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. It concludes
May 8 with “Living Color: The Animation of Racial Stereotypes
in Spike Lee’s Film Bamboozled,” a lecture
by M. J. T. Mitchell, professor of art history and English at
the University of Chicago’s Cochrane-Woods Art Center.
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