Art History Faculty Lecture | Nell Andrew

Artwork: Sonia DeLaunay, Le Bal Bullier, oil on canvas, 1913.

Join us for a welcome reception and the first Art History Faculty Lecture of the year with Professor of Art History Nell Andrew. Andrew will present the lecture “Orphism and Dance: Beneath, Beside, and Beyond the Visible.”

Nell Andrew (PhD, University of Chicago) teaches courses in European and Latin American Modern Art, modernism and the historical avant-garde, dance history, and early film. She is also a co-director of the Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop and faculty research cluster sponsored by the University of Georgia’s Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Professor Andrew is the author of the book, Moving Modernism: The Urge to Abstraction in Painting, Dance, Cinema (Oxford UP, 2020), which recovers performances, methods, and aesthetic influences for avant-garde dance pioneers and experimental filmmakers from the turn of the century to the interwar period in Europe—including Loïe Fuller, Valentine de Saint-Point, Sophie Taeuber, Akarova, and Germaine Dulac—to demonstrate the significant role played by the arts of motion in the historical avant-garde’s development of abstraction.