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March 27, 2017 - 5:30pm

Biblical Themes, Muslim Artists

Dr. Jack Renard, Professor of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University
Kemper 103

Illustrated versions of a wide variety of texts created by and for Muslims of Medieval and early modern times include scores of images of scene with Biblical resonances.

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March 22, 2017 - 6:00pm

Lecture: Mediated by Images: Entertainment and Experience in Fin-deSiècle Montmartre

Dr. Howard Lay, Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan
Kemper Art Museum; Steinbert Auditorium

6p reception, Kemper Art Museum

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November 14, 2016 - 6:00pm

Black or White? The Early Work of Pierre Soulages, c. 1948-1955

Professor Natalie Adamson, School of Art History, Senior Lecturer, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Kemper 103

Sometime in mid-to-late 1949, the American artist Hermann Cherry photographed French painter Pierre Soulages in his Paris studio.

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December 2, 2016 - 7:00pm

The 19th Annual Nelson Wu Lecture: Electric Design: Light, Labor, and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising

Gennifer Weisenfeld, Professor, Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University
Saint Louis Art Museum Auditorium
Like the last glimpse of a departing train shown thundering out of the station in a cloud of smoke, “The age of simple wound filament light bulbs is disappearing!” exclaims a 1939 advertisement for New Mazda brand light bulbs with new dual filam
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October 26, 2016 - 5:30pm

Boxing Wonder: Joseph Cornell and the Tradition of the Curiosity Cabinet

Dr. Kirsten Hoving, Charles A. Dana Professor of Art History, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Middlebury College
Kemper 103

The assemblage boxes of the American artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) have been frequently compared to curiosity cabinets of the so-called Age of Discovery that gave rise to the modern museum.

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November 4, 2016 - 7:00pm

Mylonas Lecture in Classical Art and Archaeology: "The Kyrenia Ship and the Goods of its Crew"

Dr. Andrea Berlin, James R Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology, Boston University
Saint Louis Art Museum Auditorium

The Kyrenia ship, so named when it was discovered in 1964 largely intact one mile north of the northern Cypriot town of Kyrenia, is the best preserved small Greek merchant ship ever found.

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September 22, 2016 - 6:00pm

Clothed/Unclothed: Laura Aguilar's Radical Vulnerability

Dr. Amelia Jones, Robert A. Day Professor of Art and Design and Vice Dean of Critical Studies, USC Roski School of Art and Design University of Southern California
Kemper 103

Clothed/Unclothed is the name of a radical 1990s series of diptych portrait photographs by Los Angeles based artist Laura Aguilar, who openly struggles with her own disabled queer Latina subjectivity and embodiment through her self-portraiture and

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April 14, 2016 - 6:00pm

Visual Ontologies: Style, Archaism, and the Construction of the Sacred in the Western Tradition—From Antiquity to Modernity and Back

Jaś Elsner, Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University (Visiting Professor, University of Chicago)
Kemper 103

In this lecture, I want to explore (both within and beyond the Greco-Roman tradition of Western image-making

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April 1, 2016 - 5:30pm to April 2, 2016 - 9:00am

Graduate Art History Symposium: Endurance, Ephemerality: Art and the Passage of Time

Keynote: Dr. André Dombrowski, Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Wilson Hall 214 (April 1), Hurst Lounge in Dunker Hall (April 2)

Keynote address: 
Dr. André Dombrowski, "Temporalities of Impressionism: Painting at the Speed of Consciousness"

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March 25, 2016 - 4:00pm

On Medieval Islamic Talismans

Persis Berlekamp, Associate Professor of Art History and the College, University of Chicago
Kemper 103

     Astrological and talismanic arts occupied an important place in the precarious courtly circles of the Rum Seljuks and their rivals in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

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