2022
Dare To Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment
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Speakers
- Elizabeth Rudy — Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums
- Thea Goldring — Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
- J. Cabelle Ahn — Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
- Kristel Smentek — Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard Art Museums’s major loan exhibition Dare To Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment examines the critical role played by the graphic arts in the construction and dissemination of ideas during the Enlightenment period, giving visual, concrete form to novel concepts in every realm of intellectual inquiry. The exhibition argues that prints and drawings wielded the potential to visually articulate, reinforce, or contradict beliefs as well as biases, while also arguing for social action and imagining new realities.
This talk opens with co-curator Elizabeth Rudy’s overview of the exhibition’s scope and arguments, followed by two student contributors’ focused presentations on one print they researched for the exhibition and wrote about in the catalog, and concludes with co-curator Kristel Smentek’s brief remarks and observations.
