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Sophie Kilcoyne ’13 on Accident at Gare Montparnasse

Sophie Kilcoyne ’13 discusses the theatricality of this stereoscopic image—the way it gives its viewer an impression of being a participant in the scene—which suggests…

Emmy Kennett ’16 on Rue de Rivoli

Emmy Kennett ’16 identifies the strategic choices made by this anonymous photographer which allowed him to emphasize the impressive grandeur and stately order of the…

Josephine Johnson ’13 on Two Female Nudes

Josephine Johnson ’13 examines the unstable boundaries separating idealized nudity from pornography in the 19th century.

Nickolas Falla ’16 on Collard

Nickolas Falla ’16 examines an image glorifying the expansion of France’s railway system. Because Collard’s photograph was taken from inside the train tunnel, it gives…

Andy Cavacco ’13 on Marguery

Andy Cavacco ’13 discusses Marguery’s emphasis on the dangerous nature of the work being done. He reads the photograph’s composition as capturing both the social…

Ceara Bowman ’16 on Fashion Cartes-des-Visite

By looking at a series of carte-de-visite which capture differences in French dress over a 30-year period, Ceara Bowman ’16 proposes how fashion conveys both…

Gabe Bornstein ’14 on Portrait of an Actor (Joseph Isidore Samson)

Gabe Bornstein ’14 examines Vallou de Villeneuve’s portrait of the French actor Joseph Isidore Samson for its attempts to associate sitter with authorship and knowledge,…

Nadine Biss ’13 on La Goulue

Nadine Biss ’13 reads it as a powerful image of death—both of the celebrity herself and of the more carefree French belle époque past with…

Alexandra Barie ’13 on Two French Actresses

Alexandra Barie ’13 discusses how the carte-de-visite format— allowing for photographic portraits to be easily exchanged and collected from mid-19th century on—was used by two…

Watson Conversations

Watson Conversations is a growing collection of podcasts produced by Wheaton students as part of Art History 298 and Art History 240

Turning Everyday Materials Into Art

Learn how to construct 3D works or art using commonplace materials—including wire, yearn, screen, and fishing line—and traditional handiwork techniques, such as knitting, felting and…

Artist Talk by Andi Sutton

November 5, 2013 Boston-based artist Andi Sutton, whose interactive installation is on view in the Beard and Weil Galleries through December 13, will present a…