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New Directions at the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections
A lecture by Claudia Swan, Associate Professor of Art History, Northwestern University
This lecture provides an introduction to recent acquisitions at the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, with emphasis on research directions afforded by memory treatises, milestones in the history of collecting and early museums, and illustrated books in Dutch art. The lecture will be presented by Claudia Swan, associate professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern. Swan studies the relations between early modern science and art, with a special emphasis on Netherlandish visual culture, 1400-1700. Her new book, Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland, will be published in spring 2005 by Cambridge University Press. Swan is also the author of The Clutius Botanical Watercolors (Harry N. Abrams, 1998), a collection of late 16th-century watercolors used in the instruction of medicine at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She has also been a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1998-1999) and a fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin (2002).
Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 6:30 p.m.
Charles Deering Library, Reading Room
1970 Campus Drive, Evanston
A reception will follow the lecture.
All faculty are invited to attend the lecture and exhibit of materials from the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections. Please respond by November 5 as seating is limited. Call 847-467-5918 or send an e-mail to p-strait@northwestern.edu.