Film and art historian David Lubin will present a Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture at 5:30 p.m. April 13 in Richards Hall, Room 15.
The lecture is free and open to the public and will include a virtual option via Zoom.
Lubin’s lecture is titled “Edward Hopper and Classic American Cinema.” Hopper, an avid filmgoer in his private life, has often been regarded as the most cinematic of 20th century American painters. Lubin considers in-depth the cinematic qualities and themes of Hopper’s art from the ’20s through the ’50s, a golden age for Hollywood and Hopper.
Lubin is the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of art at Wake Forest University. As an undergraduate, Lubin studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema while reviewing music for Rolling Stone. He went on to receive his doctorate in American studies from Yale.
His books include “Act of Portrayal: Picturing a Nation, Flags and Faces” and “Titanic,” a cultural-studies analysis of the blockbuster film. He has lectured at colleges, universities, medical schools and art museums throughout the United States, Europe, China and Australia. “Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images” examines the photographic portrayal of Jack and Jackie Kennedy from their public courtship in 1953 to his assassination 10 years later. The book won the Smithsonian Institution’s Charles Eldredge Prize for “distinguished scholarship in American art.” Lubin’s latest book, “Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War,” was published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
Lubin has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and research residencies at Harvard, Stanford and the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. In 2010, he was a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin and in 2016-17 was the inaugural holder of the Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professorship at Oxford University.
The School of Art, Art History and Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students.
Underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment with additional support from other sources, the series enriches the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. Each visiting artist or scholar spends one to three days on campus to meet with classes, participate in critiques and give demonstrations.
For more information on the series, contact the School of Art, Art History and Design at 402-472-5522 or e-mail schoolaahd@unl.edu.
