The Aesthetics of Astronomy
Michael Benson: a retrospective look at space exploration
THE AESTHETICS OF ASTRONOMY: A SUBJECTIVE LOOK AT COSMOGRAPHICAL DEPICTIONS THROUGH TIME
Humanities Forum, CIRCA, History Department
Tuesday, April 1 | 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
Sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities. Co-sponsored by the Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts, and the Department of History.
Writer, photographer and artist Michael Benson presents a retrospective look at the visual legacy of space exploration, covering fifty years of space travel, from the American Mariner probe fly-by of Venus in December 1962 to the latest images from the Mars Rover. His images are not so much otherworldly as abstract, modernist creations of lush imagination.