“Trompe l’oeil and Modernity” by Judith Barter

May 7, 2015
Art Institute of Chicago

Judith Barter, Field-McCormick Chair and Curator of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, addresses American trompe l’oeil as a type of painting that continued modern ideas and narratives reflecting consumer culture, standardization and professionalism, and memory and reality.

This lecture is part of the series “Lectures on American Art: Innovation and Scholarship.”