Susan McHugh to give lecture at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

On October 4, 2012, Professor of English Susan McHugh, Ph.D., will give a lecture titled "Wegman's Weimaraners and Other Animals in Contemporary Art" as part of the exhibition "William Wegman: Hello, Nature" at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art:

McHugh is the author of Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines, 2011, in the University of Minnesota Press’s Posthumanities series, as well as Dog, 2004, a volume in Reaktion Books’ groundbreaking Animal series.

Through comparisons with trends in representing and theorizing animals in art, her talk will help to illuminate why this prolific contemporary artist finds enthusiastic audiences in such diverse venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art and Sesame Street.

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