“Thinking with the Hand: Six Centuries of Drawings,” by Jack Flam, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

• Art/Photo

The pictorial languages developed in drawings since the early Renaissance have been remarkably rich and varied. Focusing on works presented in the special exhibition Mantegna to Matisse, this lecture will explore the ways in which different means of representation have evolved over the past six centuries; the evocative and exploratory nature of drawing; and how individual drawings convey ideas as well as feelings, reflecting the values of the times in which they were produced.