Larry Silver, Ph.D, Farquhar Professor of Art History, is a specialist in painting
and graphics of Northern Europe, particularly Germany and the Netherlands, during
the era of Renaissance and Reformation. He has served as 
president of the College Art Association, the Historians of Netherlandish Art, and
previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Northwestern University.
He has also served as editor-in-chief of "caa.reviews," the online reviews journal
of the College Art Association and is a member of the Print Council of America.
Silver's publications include a general survey, "Art in History" (1993) and "Peasant Scenes and Landscapes" (Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 2006), a museum exhibition on professional engravers of the16th century Netherlands, "Graven Images" (1993). Penn's Ross Gallery hosted exhibition, organized with graduate students, "Transformation: Jews and Modernity" (2001), and an exhibition on mural or frieze prints of the16th Century, "Grand Scale", originated at Wellesley's Davis Art Center (2008) and concluded at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2009). His most recent book is "Marketing Maximilian" (Princeton, 2008), on the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (d. 1519).
"Poetry is civically important for a healthy and happy society," said three-time UD alumnus Matt Mehan, BA '00 MA '09 PhD '14. "In other words, a healthy politics requires a healthy poetics."
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+ Read MoreDuring the course of the 2018-19 academic year, the university will sponsor a series of lectures, art exhibits, panel discussions and other activities centered around All the Light We Cannot See, the first chosen book for this new community reading initiative, culminating in author Anthony Doerr's visit to campus as the 2019 Eugene McDermott lecturer.
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