ASTRA and Art History present Craig Ashley Hanson

The History of Before and After: A Prolegomena for a Visual Technology

Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 5:30 p.m.

MacKinnon room 114, University of Guelph

Join art historian Craig Hanson as he considers such pairings - images of either a reconstructed past and present or a present and imagined future - along with precedents for this visual technology and some challenges of such a project, including how it might matter and not matter for the history of science.  Taking as hinge the late eighteenth century, the talk highlights the importance of temporal rapture (cataclysmic change) and ideologies of improvement (progress defined in relation to a point of origin).

Craig Ashley Hanson, Phd, FSA, is Associate Professor of Art History at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.