Mary Georgiana Cariline, Lady Filmer
Playing With Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
We think of collage as a contemporary art form; however, during the Victorian era people posed for studio portraits and exchanged these pictures on a vast scale. The makers of collages placed these portraits in elaborate watercolor designs that are both "whimsical and fantastical." These collages display a sharp wit and an absurd sense of humor that stand the rather serious and staid conventions of photography in the Victorian era on their heads, debunking stuffy Victorian cliches with surreal, subversive and funny images.
Ms. Hofelt earned her B.A. at Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, and her M.A. at the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. Ms. Hofelt is an adjunct lecturer at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has served in a variety of interpretive positions since 1995. Among her many lecture topics are Japonisme and Orientalism, 19th and 20th Century Art, and the history of photography, video and film. She has also published several Collection Cameos for the Terra Museum of American Art and various publications for the Art Institute of Chicago and has taught courses at the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh. She is the co-author of the book Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage.
When and where to hear this lecture: Thursday, October 14, 2010, at 10:00 A.M. at the Lakeview Museum, 1125 W. Lake Ave., Peoria, Illinois.
Other programs in the Fine Arts Society's 2010-2011 Lecture series: "The Art of John James Audubon" with Alan Gehret, "Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat" with Dr. William Wallace, "Architecture Vs. Art: The Era of the Iconic Art Museum" with Dr. Larry Shiner, "Frank Peyraud and local landscape" with Wendy Greenhouse, "Significant Others in Art: Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner" with Janet Clanton and "Perspectives on His Art" with Preston Jackson.
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