Brown Bag Biography with Joseph Stanton

November 9, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Mānoa Campus, Kuykendall 410

The Center for Biographical Research presents: /“Lifelines: Poems for Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper” / Joseph Stanton, Professor Emeritus of American Studies and Art History, University of 51׻ʻi at ԴDz / Joseph Stanton will begin with remarks on past examples of the use of poetry as means to biography. Most of his presentation will focus on biographical aspects of his new book of poems that endeavors to capture the lives and works of the artists Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper. His two sequences cover each artist's career from their earliest works to their final pieces. The advantages for the biography of an artist inherent in book-length sequences of ekphrastic poems will be discussed./ Joseph Stanton, a Professor Emeritus at the University of 51׻‘i, is an art historian and poet. Lifelines: Poems for Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper is his eighth book of poems. As a scholar, he has published extensively on American artists, writers, and baseball players. / Cosponsored by Hamilton Library, the 51׻ʻinuiākea School of 51׻ian Knowledge, the Matsunaga Institute, Conflict and Peace Specialist, the School of Communication & Information, and the Departments of American Studies, English, Ethnic Studies, and Sociology / Thursday, November 9 / KUY 410 / 12PM to 1:15PM HST


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