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Lecture: American Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWednesday, July 3, 10am
Free
The public is invited to join Museum Director Andrew Connors for the second in the series of lectures this summer titled "Art and Music for a New Democracy," inspired by the exhibition "Making American Artists: Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1776-1976."
How does a general public get to know its national iconic images and tunes? In an era of few public museums, fewer books illustrated with works of art, and no recordings of music, the public could purchase and share mass-produced printed interpretations of works of art, and commercially printed sheet music. Better technology to produce art prints, the establishment of studios and workshops producing multiples of sculptors’ works and the arrival of the phonograph meant that all types of art and music could be available to a wide population.
This lecture will focus on the 19th- and early 20th- century dissemination of iconic works of art through individual engraved prints, lithographs, and printed magazines, as well as plaster and marble sculptures available through catalogue sales, and early United States music published as sheet music.
Save the date for the last lecture in the series on August 7, 10am.
More info: https://www.cabq.gov/artsculture/albuquerque-museum/events/lecture-series-art-and-music-for-a-new-democracy-1
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2000 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM, United States, New Mexico 87104
