How have artists dealt with war? Has art served to encourage conflict? Should artists be blamed if they don't deal with war? Svetlana Alpers will examine striking instances when attention to the medium of art offered an alternative to strife. Painting can, literally, give us reason to pause.

The Phillipp Fehl Annual Lecture

Hosted by: Art History Program

In conjunction with: Campus Honors Program, Center for Global Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Landscape Architecture, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Krannert Art Museum, Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts, Program in Comparative and World Literature, School of Art and Design, "Theorizing the Early Modern" Reading Group, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory