Rescheduled due to the epic snow storm in January, the keynote lecture celebrating Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape will be presented by Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art at Yale University and curator of the exhibition. A reception in the Museum will follow.
Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art. He specializes in the eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century art of Britain and the British Empire, nineteenth-century American and German art and museum studies. Following positions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Universities of London and Birmingham in Great Britain, he came to Yale in 1998. His books include Reading the Pre-Raphaelites (Yale, 1998), Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain (Yale, 2005) Opulence and Anxiety (2007), catalogue for an exhibition at Compton Verney, and Before and After Modernism (Central St Martins, 2010).
