41st Annual Joseph S. and Ethel B. Atha Lecture: Instants, Moments, Hours: How Monet Paints Time

Dr. André Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania Thursday, Nov. 2 6 – 7 p.m. | Atkins Auditorium Claude Monet was the quintessential artist of all things quick. His informal and novel style captured shifts in weather, seasons, hours – masterfully chronicling the increasingly fleeting moments of modern life. In this talk, Dr. André Dombrowski, author of the forthcoming book Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time, draws connections between revolutionary shifts in time consciousness – its standardization and synchronization – and Monet's innovative depictions of time structures in his paintings. Dombrowski is a prize-winning author and the Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Associate Professor of 19th Century European Art at the University of Pennsylvania. His book Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life (University of California Press, 2013) is the winner of the Phillips Book Prize. His latest book, Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time (Yale University Press) will be released this fall. The annual Atha Lecture celebrates the life and vision of Joseph S. and Ethel B. Atha.