University of Delaware Associate Professor Margaret Werth | Photo courtesy of听
On Wednesday, March 22, Margaret Werth, associate professor of art history at the University of Delaware, will give a lecture on 19th- and 20th-century French paintings as听part of CU Boulder's Visiting Scholar Program.
Werth's area of interest is art and visual culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and her research and teaching are interdisciplinary and intermedial.
Her book The Joy of Life: The Idyllic in French Art, circa 1900, published in 2002, explores dreamlike representations of mythic community, individual fantasy, utopianism and joie de vivre in French painting from 1890 to 1917. Artists such as Henri Matisse, Paul Signac, Puvis de Chavannes, Paul C茅zanne听and Henri-Edmond Cross figure prominently in her book and are discussed in relation to contemporary political, literary, psychological听and philosophical discourses.
She has also published works on Monet, Picasso, Matisse, Redon and Manet.听Werth's听current book projects study Manet鈥檚 work of the early 1870s and his collaborations and friendship with Mallarm茅, as well as the representation of the face in diverse media, circa听1900.
What: Visiting Scholar Lecture with Margaret Werth
When: Wednesday, March 22, 5:30 p.m.
Where: Norlin Library, Center for British and Irish Studies, room M549
Her research has been supported by fellowships from the , the 听in Massachusetts and the 听research center听in Paris, France.
Werth received her MA听and PhD听from Harvard University. She taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, before coming to the University of Delaware in 2001.
The lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. at the Center for British and Irish Studies, room听M549,听on the fifth floor of Norlin Library.
