Presented By: Museum Studies Program
From Eyesore and Epiphany to Elegance and Elegy: Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals
Necessary or Accessory? Perspectives on the Object in Today's Museums
In this presentation, Graham Beal addresses the multiple purposes behind the creation of Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts as well as its changes in meaning within a city that went from being "the arsenal of democracy" to a poster child for urban decay. Beal will also discuss how individual works of art, conceived as being rare and singular, retain their power as visual objects when contextualized and confronted with increasingly sophisticated reproduction techniques.
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