Friday, October 03, 2003
USI program examining ‘inner beauty’
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The USI Liberal Arts Community of Scholars Lecture Series October 23 will feature Dr. Peg Zeglin Brand, assistant professor of philosophy and gender studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. She will present “Beauty Below the Surface: Artistic Intentions” from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center on the University of Southern Indiana campus. Brand’s program will consider “inner beauty” as it relates to artistic intentions in feminist art of the past three decades. The talk will highlight parts of a forthcoming book that she also is illustrating. Both her scholarly and artistic approaches to the topic blend the areas of aesthetics, feminist theory, art history, and theories of humor including feminist parody. Brand’s publications and presentations have addressed definitions of beauty in ancient times and questioned whether or not beauty can be considered “subversive.” She is the editor of Beauty Matters, a collection of essays published by Indiana University Press, and co-editor of Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics (Penn State Press 1995), which was nominated for the Susan Koppelman Award for the best edited work in the area of feminist studies in popular and American culture. Brand holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from University of Illinois-Chicago, an M.A. from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.A. in fine arts, painting and printmaking, from University of Illinois-Chicago. She previously taught at University of Illinois-Chicago, University of Arizona, Ohio State University, and University of Oregon. The presentation is free and open to the public. |
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