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College of LAS Events“Enclosed Art: Painting, Pollution and Glass in the Victorian Metropolis”

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“Enclosed Art: Painting, Pollution and Glass in the Victorian Metropolis”

Apr 23, 2026 5:30 pm

62 Krannert Art Museum

Lecture

Sponsor: School of Art and Design
Contact: David O'Brien
E-Mail: obrien1@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar: Campus Humanities Calendar; This talk argues that paintings exhibited in London in the mid-nineteenth century should be understood within polluted atmospheres that shaped not only artistic representations, but also practices of conservation, collecting and display, within a broader culture of technological accommodation to pollution.

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