Celebrity in Full Color: Posters, Prints, and Drawings by Toulouse- Lautrec

Laura Kalba is Associate Professor of Art History at Smith College where her research and teaching interests focus on late 19th- and early 20th-century European art, architecture and popular commercial visual culture. Her first book, Today, inexpensive reproductions of Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters can be found in nearly every souvenir shop in Paris. In this lecture, Associate Professor Laura Anne Kalba explores how, working at the intersection of popular commercial culture and high art, Toulouse-Lautrec simultaneously contributed to and challenged the myth of Paris as a city filled with beauty, music, and countless other sensory delights. His depictions of late nineteenth-century celebrities reveal a world torn between spectacle and solitude.Free, advance reservations required.

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