Emotion-Pictures: Journeys in Art, Architecture and Film

The CMU Center for Arts in Society announces its next lecture in the "Aesthetics Out of Bounds" series:

Giuliana Bruno (Harvard University): "Emotion-Pictures: Journeys in Art, Architecture and Film"

5:30 pm, Monday, October 24th in the Chosky Theatre, Purnell Center, Carnegie Mellon University

Bruno’s book Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film (Verso, 2002) is the winner of the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award, a prize awarded to “the world’s best book on the moving image.” In addition to Atlas of Emotion, Bruno has written Streetwalking on a Ruined Map (Princeton University Press, 1993), winner of the 1993 Katherine Singer Kovács prize for the best book in film studies. She is also coeditor of Off Screen (Routledge, 1988) and Immigini allo schermo (Rosenberg and Sellier, 1991). Her writing on art, architecture, and film has been published in collections internationally.

Giuliana Bruno is a Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. This lecture was made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

For more information, visit our website at: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/mwitmore/aesthetics/schedule.html