The Pigeon and the Grid: Animal Locomotion, Comparative Biology, and the Genesis of Ecological Consciousness
Room 1, Olin Science Center, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEProfessor of art history at James Madison University John Ott will speak on Eadweard Muybridge’s 1887 Animal Locomotion, a series of stop-motion photographs of humans and animals. Ott is the author of Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California: Cultural Philanthropy, Industrial Capital, and Social Authority (2014) and has published essays on art auctions, combat artists, comic books, and motoring […]