"Drawing as Dialogue: Fragonard in Tivoli"

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth teaches modern and contemporary art focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, post-1970s art, and critical theory. her current research interests include historical conceptualization of drawing as a practice, a medium and a discourse; the issue of artistic individuality in its different historical formulations; the relation between space and subjectivity; the question of interiority; the dialectic of privacy and publicness; the historical conceptions of painting as a practice, a discourse and an institution; art practice in a revolutionary situation, and art, architecture and technology in the Enlightenment.

The lecture will take place on Wednesday, April 11 at 6:00PM in room A290 Bay 9 on the second floor of Smith Warehouse. Reception to follow. Free and open to the public.