Thursday, February 2, 6:30pm
Elvehjem room L140
The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946) is well known for being one of the earliest abstract painters in America. Less known is his career-long preoccupation with the nature and properties of human expression and the sign systems used therein. In this talk, Professor Rachael DeLue of Princeton University discusses how Dove explored these matters in his art and developed a visual vocabulary for use in imagining novel forms and means of communication and interchange. His project entailed a utopian vision of radical connection, a totalizing network of relationships among objects, phenomena, and beings. The science of meteorology--the study of the earth's atmosphere and its weather--served as a model for this vision.
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