Date/Time
Date(s) - 23 Nov 2015
6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Bettman Lecture Hall, 612 Schermerhorn, Columbia University
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Please join the Department of Art History and Archaeology for the first event of the 2015-2016 Bettman Lecture Series:
Professor Charles Barber
(Princeton University)
“Reading an Icon of the Black Mohammed: George Klontzas and Islam”
6pm, Monday, November 23rd
Bettman Lecture Hall (Room 612), Schermerhorn Hall
The lecture is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception in the Stronach Center on the 8th floor of Schermerhorn Hall.
Inaugurated in 2004, the Bettman Lectures are an annual program of monthly lectures in art history sponsored by Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology. Endowed with a bequest from Linda Bettman, a former graduate student of the department, the lectures are named in her honor.
Charles Barber is a professor of art history at Princeton University. Professor Barber specializes in the history of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine art, with a particular focus on the history and theory of the icon, Byzantine aesthetics and intellectual history. He is the author of a number of books, including Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Iconoclasm (2002) and Contesting the Logic of Painting: Art and Understanding in Eleventh-Century Byzantium (2007). He is currently at work on many projects, including an upcoming book titled Painting, Poetics and Politics: Confronting the Other in Cretan Painting, which will address the work of late-16th-century Cretan painters, such as Michael Damaskinos, George Klontzas, and Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco). Professor Barber also serves as President of the United States Committee for Byzantine Studies.