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    MFAH Special Five-Part Lecture Series: Picturing War and Peace in European Art (Thursdays)

    Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building

    February 26-March 26, 2009

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    MFAH Special Five-Part Lecture Series:  Picturing War and Peace in European Art (Thursdays)

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents a Special Five-Part Lecture Series:  Picturing War and Peace in European Art.   Thursdays, February 26, March 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

    The prints in the exhibition The Plains of Mars: European War Prints, 1500-1825, from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation reveal...

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents a Special Five-Part Lecture Series:  Picturing War and Peace in European Art.   Thursdays, February 26, March 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

    The prints in the exhibition The Plains of Mars: European War Prints, 1500-1825, from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation reveal the broad scope of graphic imagery devoted to war and peace in the early modern period. During this time, Europe remained in an almost perpetual state of war. Religion, politics, economics, and dynastic ambition all played a role in the turmoil that spread across the continent. Webs of often shifting alliances meant that distinct conflicts easily became inflamed and widespread.

    While such constant warfare is not historically unique, the proliferation of the printed image beginning in the late fifteenth century meant that various aspects and scenes of war could be experienced for the first time by a broad audience. War-related prints, both original and reproductive, came to serve an array of functions: commemorative, propagandistic, iconic, narrative, eulogistic, critical, and instructional.

    This lecture series will use the exhibition as a point of departure for exploring various themes and modes of representation employed in images of war and peace from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

    Thursday, February 26, 2009
    Introduction and Exhibition Tour
    Presented by Leslie Scattone, Assistant Curator of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

    Thursday, March 5, 2009
    Allegories of War and Peace
    Presented by Leslie Scattone, Assistant Curator of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

    Thursday, March 12, 2009
    West, Copley, and the Modern Hero
    Presented by Kaylin H. Weber, Curatorial Assistant, American Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    Thursday, March 19, 2009
    Squadrons of Satirists; Or, the Cannons of Caricature: The War-Time Weapons of Humor
    Presented by Dr. Robert L. Patten, Lynette S. Autrey Professor in Humanities, Rice University

    Thursday, March 26, 2009
    Mediated War
    Presented by Dr. James Clifton, Director of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation and Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    Pictured:  Francisco de Goya,  detail And are like wild beasts (Y son fieras) (no. 5), from The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra), c. 1810—15/1863, 155 x 210 mm (6 1/8 x 8 ¼ in.), Etching with aquatint, first edition (1863).


    Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building

    5601 Main Street
    Houston, TX 77005

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    Admission is free and open to the public.

    Reservations are not required but requested. Space is limited. To reserve your place, e-mail swheeler@mfah.org.


    Times:

    Thursdays, February 26, March 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

    LOCATION:  Lectures take place in the American General Conference Room. 

     


    Phone: 713-639-7300

    Parking:

    Museum Parking Garage
    Located directly east of the Beck and Law buildings, the MFAH Visitors Center features a four-story covered parking garage.

    The easy-to-find parking entrance is on Binz, marked by a large, yellow arrow.

    You're always protected from the elements when you park your car in the Museum Garage. From there, you can go to the Visitors Center lobby and find a ticketing desk and up-to-the minute museum information.

    As an added convenience, you can enter the Beck and Law buildings from the Visitors Center through security-monitored, climate-controlled tunnels connecting all three buildings.
     


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