University Park, Pa. -- Serge Guibaut, professor of art history at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, will give a free public lecture, "Museum ad Nauseum," at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 16, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium at the Palmer Museum of Art on Penn State's University Park campus. Guibaut's visit is co-sponsored by the Penn State School of Visual Arts' John M. Anderson Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series, Department of Art History, Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art and the Graduate Association for Visual Culture.
A native of France, Guibaut received a doctorate in art history from the University of California at Los Angeles. His research is in post-war American and French history, notably post-war Franco-American relations as they relate to art. He has written several books, including "How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War" (Chicago, 1983) and "Voir, Ne Pas Voir, Faut Voir" (Chambon, France, 1993). He is also co-author of "Voices of Fire: Art, Rage, Power, and the State" (Toronto, 1995) and "Be-Bomb: The Transatlantic War of Images and All That Jazz 1946-1956" (Spain, 2008).