Join art historian Vivien Green Fryd for the Eldredge Prize lecture, the Art of the Un-Speakable and the Me Too Movement. Fryd is a professor emerita in the history of art and architecture department at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815–1865 and Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keeffe and is currently writing Henry Ries’s Photographs of Berlin Iconic Buildings and Monuments, 1937–2004. In addition, Fryd has published essays in Panorama, Art Bulletin, American Art Journal, American Art, and Winterthur Portfolio.
Fryd was the 2022 recipient of the Smithsonian American Art Museum‘s (SAAM) Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art for her book, Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970. This publication focuses on the role of contemporary art in challenging society to acknowledge and legally address rape, incest, and other forms of sexual violence. In her lecture, she will reflect how she has conscientiously brought this difficult material into university and museum settings.
This event will be in SAAM’s McEvoy Auditorium.