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Naomi Hume, Visiting Artist & Critic Lecture Series

Date: October 8 2012 5:00pm Location: Miller Hall - Room 102

Naomi Hume is Associate Professor of Art History at Seattle University where she teaches courses on modern art. She received her Ph.D from the University of Chicago and her research focuses on how Central and Eastern European artists adapted international avant-garde art languages to address contemporary political, cultural, local and national issues. She has presented her work at national and international conferences in the US, Belgium, Britain, the Czech Republic and Sweden. Recent publications include: “Avant-Garde Anachronisms: Prague’s Group of Fine Artists and Viennese Art Theory,” (Slavic Review, Fall 2012) and “The Nature of Print Photography in the 1850’s,” (History of Photography, Feb. 2011)