Symposium to honor art professor David Lubin

The New Yorker once described Charlotte C. Weber Professor of American Art David Lubin as an “esteemed scholar of art history in relation to popular culture.”  Wake Forest faculty, staff and students are invited to attend an interdisciplinary symposium in honor of Lubin. He has taught courses on the history of art, film and popular culture.

Lubin is retiring this spring after 25 years as a teacher and scholar. 

The program includes leading scholars in American studies who are experts in understanding the forces that shape American culture including professors Martin Berger (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Alexander Nemerov (Stanford University) and Jennifer Roberts (Harvard University).

 The event will be held at Reynolda House Museum of American Art on Saturday, April 26 from 1 to 5:30 p.m. The symposium is free and open to the public. Space is limited. A light reception will follow. Registration is required.

Lubin studied filmmaking at the USC School of Cinema while reviewing music for Rolling Stone. “His Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images” (2003) won the Smithsonian Institution’s Charles C. Eldredge Prize, and The New Yorker described him as an “esteemed scholar of art history in relation to popular culture.” He is a Guggenheim Fellow and an NEH Public Scholar.

He has written about social class, social mobility, migration and other issues in “Titanic” (1999) and is the author of “Act of Portrayal: Eakins, Sargent, James” (1985) and “Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America” (1994).

His most recent book, “Ready for My Closeup: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of the Hollywood Dream” will be released on August 12, in coordination with the 75th anniversary of the film.

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