11/21 Elizabeth Otto

Time: 6pm, CFA 112

Elizabeth Otto is an Assistant Professor of Art History at UB. Her lecture is entitled: Surface Tension: Late 19th Century Theories of Perception and the Origins of Photomontage. Her work examines photomontage and the political, cultural and gendered valences of represented bodily fragmentation in interwar Germany. Her research explores the relationship between popular and avant-garde visual cultures from the 19th century to the present, gendered neoclassicism and French cubism, and the history of photography. Recent publications include Bauhaus Photomontage, The Secret History of Photomontage, and Uniform: On Constructions of Soldierly Masculinity. She has received grants and awards at Queen’s University, the University of Michigan, Freie Universität Berlin.