Global Discovery Series: A Flood of Pictures

As part of the interactive Global Discovery Lecture Series featuring Penn professors sharing new and innovative research, Michael Leja, James and Nan Wagner Farquhar Professor Emeritus of History of Art, will explore when and how pictures—including illustrations in books, pamphlets, and newspapers; photographs on cards; posters and broadsheets; paintings displayed in theatrical venues, etc.—began to permeate daily life in the U.S. Leja will focus on how the widespread circulation of pictures reshaped a culture accustomed to printed and spoken words.

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