PECS Student-Faculty Dinner: “Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment,” Karl Kusserow

Speaker: Karl Kusserow, John Wilmerding Curator of American Art at Princeton Art Museum

Abstract: “Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment ” is a groundbreaking survey of American art exploring the complex relationship between art and the environment. This exhibition, opening at the Princeton University Art Museum in October 2018, offers the first broad ecocritical review of American art and examines the environmental contexts of artistic practice from the colonial period to the present day. Tracing how visions of the environment have changed from the Native-European encounter to the emergence of modern ecological activism, the exhibition examines how artists have both responded to, and actively instigated, changes in ecological understanding.

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PECS Student-Faculty Dinner: “Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment,” Karl Kusserow

Event Date

Tue, Mar 27, 2018 ・ 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Location

Prospect House, Room E

Category

Department

body of water shaped as top half of a globe hahaha

Speaker: Karl Kusserow, John Wilmerding Curator of American Art at Princeton Art Museum

Abstract: “Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment ” is a groundbreaking survey of American art exploring the complex relationship between art and the environment. This exhibition, opening at the Princeton University Art Museum in October 2018, offers the first broad ecocritical review of American art and examines the environmental contexts of artistic practice from the colonial period to the present day. Tracing how visions of the environment have changed from the Native-European encounter to the emergence of modern ecological activism, the exhibition examines how artists have both responded to, and actively instigated, changes in ecological understanding.