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Unstable Boundaries: Nature and Industry in Anna Atkin's Cyanotypes
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Franklin D. Murphy Lecture Series
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Spencer Museum of Art, Room 211
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The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
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Spencer Museum of Art, Kress Foundation Department of Art History
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Anna Atkins’s cyanotypes, or blueprint photography, featuring algae and ferns do not disclose much about the social and political upheavals of the mid-19th century. In this talk, Siobahn Angus (Carleton University) shows how the materiality of Atkins’s work reflects industrial growth, linking cotton, paper mills, the railway, and plantation slavery.
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