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Dr. Rachael DeLue, Professor in American Art at Princeton University, will be delivering a lecture at Ocean County College as part of a new series called Princeton on the Road. Dr. DeLue’s talk will be about Étienne-Leopold Trouvelot’s drawings of astronomical phenomena, created in the late 19th century. Through the lens of these drawings, Dr. De Lue will discuss art, science, and the history of scientific imagery. The talk will be part of Ocean County College’s student-organized Art of Science Day on March 4. Free and open to the public.
Rachael Z. DeLue is the Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art at Princeton University and the director of the Princeton Humanities Initiative. DeLue specializes in the history of American and transatlantic art and visual culture, focusing on intersections among art, science, and the history and theory of knowledge. She has also written about the French painter Camille Pissarro, Spike Lee’s film Bamboozled, Romare Bearden’s collages, Darwin and the visual arts, the relationship between art writing and medical diagnosis in the United States circa 1900, shoreline landscapes as symbols of empire, the supernatural in American art, constructions of Native America within Anglo-American archaeology in the early republic, and the life and times of snowy owls. She is the inaugural speaker in the Program for Community College Engagement’s “Princeton on the Road” series.
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