Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitors
Listen to the lectureBARBARA STAFFORD
OCTOBER 1, 2007
Barbara Maria Stafford is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Chicago. On Monday, October 1 2007, Professor Stafford presented her most recent research and observations on cognitive image histories in a series of talks including: a public lecture entitled "The Remaining 10%: The Role of Sensory Understanding in the Age of the Self-Organizing Brain" for the Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitors Program in the Visual Arts; two workshops, one on "Attention" and the other on "The significance of tight-figure formats;" and finally, a classroom teaching session (Art 426 Sites of Visual Modernity in China, the "senior seminar" in art history). Stafford is at the forefront of a growing movement that calls for the humanities to confront the brain's material realities.