Please join the UWM Department of Art History on Wednesday, November 10th at 5pm for a book talk by Art History Assistant Professor Sarah Schaefer, who will discuss her recently published monograph Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination (Oxford, 2021).
The event is free! Register by clicking the link below and you will receive an email with a Zoom invitation to Professor Schaefer’s talk.
Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination explores the role of biblical imagery in modernity through the lens of Gustave Doré (1832-83), whose work is among the most reproduced and adapted scriptural imagery in the history of Judeo-Christianity. This book repositions biblical imagery at the center of modernity, an era that has often been defined through a process of secularization, and argues that Doré’s biblical imagery negotiated the challenges of visualizing the Bible for modern audiences in both sacred and secular contexts.