![]() ![]() ![]() The historic mansion will remain untouched, save for a new exterior paint job and woodwork restoration, but a new all-electric and carbon-neutral visitor centre, named the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape, will eventually grace the 250-acre site. The estate will undergo major construction over the next two years courtesy of a $25m investment from state and private funding, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on 13 December. Before joining the Vanderbilt faculty, he was director of the American Indian Program at Cornell University.Big changes are coming to the Olana State Historic Site, the 150-year-old house museum and surrounding landscape in Greenport, New York, once home to the Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church. Most of Usner’s research concentrates on the early South, but he has published widely on images of American Indians in U.S. “Imagining Upstate New York Without American Indians” is the title of his talk. McTyeire Professor of History, who will discuss how art and letters in the 19th century removed American Indians from landscapes in the East. ![]() Stuhr’s publications include “Pragmatism, Postmodernism and the Future of Philosophy” and “Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy.”Ĭoncluding the series will be Daniel Usner, the Holland M. His research interests include political philosophy, ethics, 19th and 20th century American and European philosophies, and contemporary cultural issues. “I want to focus on what it distinctively means to be an American (hence the italics in my title) and what America means, and I will look at the Hudson River School in terms of the answers that it provides to these questions,” said Stuhr, who is also a professor of American and Southern Studies. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, will address “Nature and National Character: The Hudson River School and the Making of American Culture” on Nov. and to the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture’s Ecology and Spirituality research group on Oct. 12, Wood will discuss the relevance of the Hudson River School’s ideals in today’s world with Mark Scala, exhibitions curator at the Frist Center, and internationally renowned land artist Chris Drury, author of Chris Drury: Silent Spaces.ĭrury’s works “explore nature and culture, both inner and outer,” according to his website, Drury is also scheduled to speak at Dyer Observatory on Oct. Admission to the talk is free, and those planning to attend can purchase box lunches at the Frist Center Café or bring their own lunches. The lectures, which are part of a continuing partnership between Vanderbilt and the Frist Center, take place the second Wednesdays of October through December from noon to 1 p.m. These speakers will surely enrich our shared experience of the paintings in this noted collection.” “Our eyes are informed by our background knowledge, by our imagination and by conversation with others. “It is not enough to look at paintings,” said Wood, who has organized the ‘Off the Wall: Hudson River School’ series. Durand, Frederic Edwin Church and others associated with the Hudson River School. The Hudson River School is a designation given to artists working between 18 whose paintings convey an immense reverence for nature in all its grandeur. 12 Vanderbilt University professors from varied disciplines will challenge viewers of the Hudson River School exhibition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts to think critically about the contemporary meaning of the 19th century landscape paintings.ĭavid Wood, professor of philosophy and environmental artist, will moderate the series of public discussions based on the work found in Hudson River School: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. ![]()
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