Four lectures exploring the theme “Myth and Mind: Mythological Consciousness in French Art from David to Delacroix” will be presented Sept. 22-27 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The free public lectures in the Hanes Art Center auditorium will concern French painters Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) and Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). The University of Iowa’s Dorothy Johnson, Roy J. Carver Professor of Art History and director of the School of Art and Art History, will deliver the following talks:
- Sept. 22, 5:45 p.m.: “The Origins of Romantic Hellenism: Myth and Meaning from David to Girodet.”
- Sept. 24, 5:45 p.m.: “Eros and the Mapping of the Mythological Body.”
- Sept. 25, 5:45 p.m.: “Ingres and the Enigma.”
- Sept. 27, 11 a.m.: “Mythological Madness and the Feminine.”
Johnson specializes in 18th- and 19th-century French and European art. She wrote “Jacques-Louis David: Art in Metamorphosis” (Princeton University Press, 1993) and “Jacques-Louis David: The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis” (Getty Museum Monograph Series, 1997). She now researches Romantic Hellenism in French art.
Receptions will follow the talks, which will be part of the Bettie Allison Rand Lecture Series in the art department, part of the College of Arts and Sciences. The biennial Rand lectures in art history emphasize European painting of the 16th through the 18th centuries. William G. Rand of Raleigh, a 1952 UNC graduate, established the lecture series in honor of his late wife, who studied art at Carolina.
For more information, contact the art department at (919) 962-2015.
University of Iowa art professor Dorothy Johnson will discuss the painting “The Lovers of Paris and Helen” (1789), by Jacques-Louis David, in a Sept. 22 talk at UNC-Chapel Hill. | |
Art department contact: Wei-Cheng Lin, (919) 962-1273, wclin@email.unc.edu
College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu