Framing the View, or Viewing the Frame?

Thursday, November 14, 2013, 7-9pm

A program of Framing Narratives: Renaissance to Modernism

Jordan Bear, Framing the View, or Viewing the Frame? Landscape as a Way of Seeing in the 19th Century

This talk explores how several of the artists represented in Framing Narratives: Renaissance to Modernism transformed land into landscape through the convention of the ‘view’. In particular, it will examine the variety of ways that a picture’s status as a view – as a partial, selected version of nature – is signaled, and will discuss the implications of these signals, both for the viewers inside the picture, as well as those in the gallery.

Jordan Bear, Assistant Professor, Department of Art.