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Gallery Talk: Spectacle and Leisure in Paris: Degas to Mucha

Dr. Elizabeth C. Childs, Chair; with PhD candidates Lauren Johnson, Kirsten Marples; and PhD students Meg Galindo, Lindsay Sheedy
March 30, 2017 - 5:00pm
Kemper Art Museum

Elizabeth C. Childs, Etta and Mark Steinberg Professor of Art History and chair of the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences, and exhibition curator for Spectacle and Leisure in Paris: Degas to Mucha, will lead a discussion with PhD candidates Lauren Johnson and Kirsten Marples, and PhD students Meg Galindo and Lindsay Sheedy, who contributed essays to the exhibition catalog.

Bringing together a broad selection of prints, posters, photographs, and film, the exhibition offers an overview of the thriving entertainment cultures of Paris in the last decades of the 19th century and features works by such artists as Pierre Bonnard, Jules Chéret, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Alphonse Mucha, Pablo Picasso, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

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