Brooks Museum of Art

Impressionism will be surveyed from its beginnings as a group of obscure artists in Paris to its popularity as a world-wide phenomenon. We will see how innovations in both the production of paint and theories of color perception would inform the radical experiments of Impressionism, and the even more radical forms of picture-making carried out […]

John Edwin Mason teaches African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia. His research currently focuses on twentieth-century documentary photography and photojournalism. His next book will be about the great African American photographer, writer, and filmmaker, Gordon Parks. He has previously published books on South African social and cultural history. He […]