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DESCRIPTION:Art History Speaker Series — Hunting\, Ecology\, and the Arts
 \n\nTalk: Dogsbodies: Canine Portraiture and Hunting Culture in Eighteenth
 -Century France\nSpeaker: Amy Freund\, associate professor and the Kleinhe
 inz Family Endowed Chair in Art History at Southern Methodist University\n
 When: Tuesday\, March 10\, 2026 • 12:00–1:15 PM (Mountain Standard Tim
 e / MST)\nWhere: Zoom https://boisestate.zoom.us/j/92509387759\n\nPhoto de
 tail from Jean-Baptiste Oudry\, The Dachshund Pehr with Dead Game and a Ri
 fle\, 1740\, National Museum\, Stockholm\n\nThis event is free and open to
  the public\n\nSeries Description\n\nHunting has long occupied a central p
 lace in art history—not only in natural history illustrations\, grand pa
 intings of human–animal combat\, popular prints\, and other visual media
 \, but also as the impetus for a wide range of material culture. It produc
 ed artifacts as varied as hunting horns\, trophies\, horse tack\, taxiderm
 y\, furniture\, and fashion. As both a subject of artistic representation 
 and a material practice\, hunting offers a compelling lens through which t
 o consider how human intervention shaped attitudes toward the environment\
 , constructed gender roles\, and reinforced social hierarchies. Images of 
 the hunt—often defined by direct and violent incursions into nature—ca
 me to embody humanity’s presumed dominion over the natural world. To exa
 mine these works critically is to gain insight into the historical entangl
 ement of humans and their environment\, and into the role of that relation
 ship in shaping cultural and historical identities. Supported by Humanitie
 s and Social Studies Initiative (HSSI).\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nAmy Freund
  is an associate professor and the Kleinheinz Family Endowed Chair in Art 
 History at Southern Methodist University. Freund is a specialist in 18th-c
 entury European art. Her first book\, Portraiture and Politics in Revoluti
 onary France (Penn State University Press\, 2014)\, examines how sitters a
 nd artists used portraiture to reformulate personal and political identity
  during the French Revolution. Articles related to this project have been 
 published in Eighteenth-Century Studies\, The Art Bulletin and in Interior
  Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France\, 1789–1914 (Ashgate\, 201
 0). Her second book\, Noble Beasts: Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Centu
 ry French Art (Yale University Press\, 2026)\, analyzes the representation
  of the hunt in late 17th- and 18th-century France. Research from this pro
 ject has been published in Art History\, Journal18\, and several edited vo
 lumes. Freund is also the second vice president of the American Society fo
 r Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) and a past president of the Historian
 s of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA).
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