The Ruination of Everything: Joseph Pennell, America and Illustration before the Great War
Eric Segal
IMAGE (detail): Joseph Pennell, Gatun Lock – end of the day, 1912
The Power Institute with Sydney Ideas is proud to present a talk by Eric Segal, of the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida.
Segal’s presentation will focus on the artist Joseph Pennell (U.S.A. 1857-1926). Pennell worked throughout Europe and England illustrating Old World cities and landscapes, whist at the same time rendering great American works of architecture and engineering. His dedication to a shabby Europe of the past and a gleaming New-World modernity, reflected contradictions and disappointments in his chauvinistic concerns about the faltering course of American cultural progress. The talk will explore how Pennell tied together thinking about the preservation of art, encroaching immigration and “wonders” of engineering, in an untidy package that led to complex and sometimes explosive imagery.
Eric Segal is Education Curator of Academic Programs and Chair of Education at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida. He completed his doctorate in American art at the University of California in Los Angeles. Prior to assuming his current position at the Harn in 2010, he taught Art History at the University of Florida. He has published on nineteenth and twentieth century American art and illustration, and lectures on American art and museum education.
Date: Thursday 12th June, 6.00pm – 7.30pm
Venue: Law LT 106, Level 1 Sydney Law School Annex, Eastern Avenue, Camperdown Campus, The University of Sydney
The event is FREE however registration is essential.
Please register online via The University of Sydney events calendar here.