Petra ten-Doesschate Chu

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
Model or Memory: A Nineteenth-Century Conundrum
In the nineteenth century, especially during its
second half, an unprecedented interest in
visual memory’s role in the creative process
developed among artists as well as art
theorists, philosophers, and psychologists.
Needless to say, visual memory had always
played a part in the creative process but, by
the middle of the nineteenth century, a variety
of circumstances, including but not limited to
the rapid development of psychology of
perception, an interest in new modes of art
pedagogy, the development of photography,
and the questions it raised about the nature of
realism and abstraction, gave rise to a lively
discourse about this topic. In my lecture I hope
to highlight some aspects of this discourse,
demonstrating the complex reasons why some
artists advocated the use of memory while
others saw it as harmful to art.
Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Prof. of Art History and Museum Studies, Director MA
Program Museum Professions, Seton Hall University, Managing Editor “NineteenthCentury Art Worldwide”, autorka i redaktorka wielu naukowych książek i artykułów, m.in.:
French Realism and the Dutch Masters: the Influence of Dutch Seventeenth-Century
Painting on the Development of French Painting between 1830-1870 (1975), Courbet in
Perspective (1877), Letters of Gustave Courbet (1992), The popularization of images:
Visual Culture under the July Monarchy (1994), Redifining Genre: French and American
Painting 1850-1900 (1995), Eden Close at Hand: the Painting of Henri Martin, 1860-1943
(2005), Nineteenth-Century European Art (2006), The Most Arogant Man in France:
Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture (2007), Twenty-FirstCentury Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century Art. Essays in Honour of Gabriel P.
Weisberg (2008), Orient Expressed: Japan’s Influence on Western Art, 1854-1918
(2011).
Wykład odbędzie się we wtorek, 30 października, o godzinie 12.45, w siedzibie Instytutu
Historii Sztuki przy ul. Szewskiej 36, w sali 309.