Dr. Larry Shiner
Architecture Vs. Art: The Era of the Iconic Art Museum
Not only has Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao art museum become one of the best known architectural works of recent years, but its power to attract thousands of tourists and rejuvenate a declining industrial city has become known in the museum world as "the Bilbao Effect." As a consequence many art museum boards have engaged famous architects and encouraged them to create spectacular and costly disigns that sometimes end up distracting visitors' attention from the art the buildings contain. This lecture will explore several of the more interesting recent art museum designs and consider how well or ill they serve the art they contain. In addition to striking new designs built in Boston and New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, the lecture will include important recent buildings for art in such mid-continent cities as Milwaukee, Chicago, Cincinnati, Kansas City and Minneapolis.
Dr. Shiner received his PhD from the Universite de Strasbourg in France. He taught at Cornell College in Iowa from 1962 to 1971. In 1971 he joined the faculty at Sangamon State University (now University of Illinois at Springfield). Dr. Shiner taught philosophy and European history and was named Professor Emeritus in 2005. Dr. Shiner has published a number of essays on topics in contemporary European philosophy, the critical philosophy of history, and philosophy of art. He has also published two books. In retirement, Dr. Shiner has continued researching, writing and lecturing on topics related to the visual arts.
When and where to hear this lecture: Thursday, December 9, 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: "Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage" with
Miranda Hofelt "The Art of John James Audubon" with Alan Gehret, "Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat" with Dr. William Wallace, , "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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