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Art as Experience at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Code: TT51325

Dates: June 27, 2025

Meets: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Sessions: 1

Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Course Fee: $65.00

Sorry, we are no longer accepting registrations for this course. Please contact our office to find out if it will be rescheduled, or if alternative classes are available.

Ever wonder how a cluster of small works can tell a powerful story together - or how that story changes if we change the art's placement: i.e. a medieval church vs. a white museum wall? Explore the Philadelphia Museum’s European Galleries (1850-1900) with the ever-popular Prof. Cordula Grewe in a dynamic conversation between us, the art and its setting. This class focuses on how curatorial choices shape perception, emotional responses and our understanding of the art, and how we, as the viewer, are also co-curators of the objects we are experiencing.
Fee: $65.00

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia Museum of Art
26th St & Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19130
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Cordula Grewe

Dr. Cordula Grewe specializes in modern European art, with an emphasis on visual piety, word-image relationships, aesthetics, and art as politics. Her books include Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism (2009), The Nazarenes: Romantic Avant-garde and the Art of the Concept (2015), Wilhelm Schadow (1788-1862): Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde (2017), and The Arabesque from Kant to Comics (2021) as well as essay collections on museums of mankind (Die Schau des Fremden, 2006) and print culture (The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, co-edited with John Ittmann, 2017). Her current research projects now push into the 20th and 21st century, ranging from modern theo-aesthetics (Ingres to the Leipzig School) and the body as medium (Emma Hamilton to Nicki Minaj) to art in the Third Reich (Nazi Cultures of Display). In addition to her art historical research, she has embarked on a ‘non-fictional novel,’ part historical reckoning, part family history, and titled Mink in Flames: A Memoir of Immigration, Intergenerational Trauma, and the American Dream.

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