A Flood of Pictures: The Formation of a Picture Culture in the United States
Date and Time
April 9, 2026
07:00PM - 08:00PM EDT
Location
American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609 United States
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Art historian Michael Leja excavates the nineteenth-century foundations of our contemporary picture-saturated world. Drawing on his recent book, A Flood of Pictures: The Formation of a Picture Culture in the United States (2025) Leja reveals insights into several questions: When and how did pictures begin to permeate everyday lives in the United States? What happened to those daily lives when they did? And what happened to pictures in the process?