About this Event
Join History of Art for the next in the Research Seminar Series chaired by Professor Claudia Hopkins.
This lecture will be hybrid. Please book your ticket for attendance in person or online. Further details on how to access the lecture will be sent to you following booking.
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the Higgitt Gallery.
Albert Robida, in the 1880s, authored a trilogy envisioning the 1950s as a society dominated by image technologies, distracting the public with spectacle and financial influence. This lecture explores Robida’s photography of the future.
Javier Ortiz-Echagüe is a lecturer in History of Art at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. He was a contributor to the anthology Hot Art, Cold War – Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990, edited by Claudia Hopkins, Iain Boyd Whyte (2020).
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hunter Lecture Theatre O.17, Hunter Building (Edinburgh College of Art), Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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