[arthistorymajors] Please join us on Thursday May 12, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. for "Coles Phillips and the Commercial Imagination, c.1915"

Cecilia Flanagan flanagac at uci.edu
Tue Apr 19 10:21:36 PDT 2011


Please join us on  Thursday May 12, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in the Humanities 
Gateway 1010 for:

"Coles Phillips and the Commercial Imagination, c.1915"

Jennifer Greenhill, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, 
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Barbara Thom Postdoctoral 
Fellow at the Huntington Library, 2010-11

The lecture focuses the work of the American illustrator Coles Phillips 
(1880-1927), whose so-called fade-away girl was a fixture on the covers 
of early-twentieth-century popular journals. Phillips’s conspicuous 
investment in abstraction--which he accessed by working through the 
structural tropes of avant-garde photography--not only made his graphic 
designs stand out from the competition, but also helped him to make a 
case for commercial illustration as a particular mode of subjective 
visualization.


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