“Dead Birds, or, How to Make a Picture Come to Life”: Department of Art & Archaeology Lecture - Reunions 2025
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“Dead Birds, or, How to Make a Picture Come to Life”: Department of Art & Archaeology Lecture

May 23 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

May 23, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71

In this talk, Rachael DeLue, the Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art and professor of Art & Archaelology and American Studies, will share insights from her current research and teaching on the relationship between art and science in 19th-century Europe and North America, focusing in particular on her study of images from the field of ornithology, the scientific study of birds. She will discuss how the ideas and methods of art and science intersect and collide in illustrations by figures such as Mark Catesby, Elizabeth Gould, John James Audubon and Martin Johnson Heade, and she will consider what stories these admixtures can tell us about the past and its legacies in the present.

Speakers: Rachael DeLue, Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art and professor of art and archaeology and American studies; director, Humanities Initiative.

Sponsored by the Department of Art & Archaeology

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Date:
May 23
Time:
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Venue

Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08540 United States
Phone
(609) 258 - 3000

Organizer

Department of Art & Archaeology

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