Held at the Liu Centre beginning at 7pm.
This year the McLean l ectures will examine the place of photography in the construction of nuclea r narratives since World War II. To what extent\, John O'Brian will ask\, i s the mushroom cloud\, the meta-symbol of the atomic age\, laced with Canad ian content?
John O’Brian is Professor of Art Histor y and Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies at the University o f British Columbia\, Vancouver. He has published more than a dozen books\, including: Beyond Wilderness (co-edited with Peter White\, 2007)\; Ruthles s Hedonism (1999)\; Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism ( 1986 and 1993)\; and David Milne and the Modern Tradition of Painting (1983 ). His current research is on the engagement of photography with the atomic era. He is organizing an exhibition\, Camera Atomica\, for the Art Gallery of Ontario\, and writing a monograph\, The Bomb in the Wilderness\, for th e University of British Columbia Press.
For more information contact Dr. Laura Moss\, mossl@interchang e.ubc.ca
photo: Admiral W.H.P (“Spike”) Blandy and his Wife\, 1946.
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