"How I See Is What I Know: Technology and Vision in the Nineteenth Century"

Time: 5:00 p.m.

Place: Rhys Carpenter Library 21, Bryn Mawr College

John Zarobell is the Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and was formerly the Associate Curator of European Painting Before 1900 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Rodin Museum. While at the Philadelphia Museum of Art he curated a number of exhibitions including Manet and the Sea; African Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back and Renoir Landscapes. Currently the coordinating curator of Frida Kahlo, John is working on Paul Klee’s Pedagogical Sketchbook and an upcoming atrium commission with Kerry James Marshall. He received his PhD in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley. His book, Empire of Landscape, will be published in 2009.

This lecture marks the opening of the exhibition "Educating the Eye: Nineteenth-Century Optical Toys and Devices" (see Exhibits).