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The 1937 Paris World's Fair: Into the Exhibits with Dr. Jennie Hirsh
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Jennie Hirsh (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College) is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Columbia Universities, as well as pre-doctoral fellowships from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Wolfsonian FIU. Hirsh has authored essays on artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Yinka Shonibare, and Regina Silveira, and is co-editor, with Isabelle Wallace, of Contemporary Art and Classical Myth (Ashgate 2011).
This conversation is suitable for all ages.
90 minutes, including a 30 minute Q&A.
When signing up, I never focused on the date of the World's Fair. How interesting to see the program in perspective to what was happening in Europe then and within the next few years.
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The gathering forces of war were made evident by Jennie in how the pavilions and art expressed what was coming. It was fascinating to see how this World's Fair expressed these forces.
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