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SUMMARY:Art History Faculty Lecture with Nell Andrew | The Puppet in the Av
 ant-Garde Imagination
LOCATION:University of Georgia\, University of Georgia Chapel\, Herty Dr\, 
 Athens\, GA 30602\, USA
DESCRIPTION:This Art History Faculty Lecture features Professor Nell Andrew
 \, who will present “The Puppet in the Avant-Garde Imagination.” Lectu
 re details forthcoming.\n\nAndrew (PhD\, University of Chicago) teaches co
 urses in European and Latin American Modern Art\, modernism and the histor
 ical avant-garde\, dance history\, and early film. She is also a co-direct
 or of the Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop and faculty research clust
 er sponsored by the University of Georgia’s Willson Center for Humanitie
 s and Arts. Andrew is the author of the book\, Moving Modernism: The Urge 
 to Abstraction in Painting\, Dance\, Cinema (Oxford UP\, 2020)\, which rec
 overs performances\, methods\, and aesthetic influences for avant-garde da
 nce pioneers and experimental filmmakers from the turn of the century to t
 he interwar period in Europe—including Loïe Fuller\, Valentine de Saint
 -Point\, Sophie Taeuber\, Akarova\, and Germaine Dulac—to demonstrate th
 e significant role played by the arts of motion in the historical avant-ga
 rde’s development of abstraction. The multi-disciplinary nature of Profe
 ssor Andrew’s research has led her to probe disciplinary assumptions and
  traditions that separate the study of the arts and humanities. Her work a
 ims to expand the objects and methods of art history by focusing on the na
 ture and actions of both material and ephemeral art objects\; the sensory 
 systems involved in perception and reception\; the concept of abstraction\
 ; and the gendered bias of art historical formalism and modernist medium-s
 pecificity. Her most current research addresses the avant-garde’s playfu
 l and political mobilization of puppets\, marionettes\, dolls and masks in
  interwar Europe. Her scholarship appears in Art Journal\, Italian Modern 
 Art\, and in numerous anthologies on the topic of modernism\, including Th
 e Modernist World\, eds. Stephen Ross and Allana Lindgren (Routledge\, 201
 5)\, Oxford Art Online\, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism and The R
 outledge Encyclopedia of Dance Modernism. She has previously
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