Date/Time
Date(s) - 26 Jan 2017
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location
Bettman Lecture Hall, 612 Schermerhorn, Columbia University
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“Shaping Medieval Art for the Twenty-First Century”
Adam Cohen (University of Toronto)
Thursday, January 26, 6:30 p.m.
612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
This lecture will discuss the intellectual, methodological, and practical challenges in writing a new introduction to the art and architecture of the Middle Ages. Among the topics to be considered will be an analysis of the ideological underpinnings of current textbooks on the subject and the impact of globalization on research and pedagogy in medieval art, especially in light of current events. The lecture will be informed bythe speaker’s recent experiences in the “Global and Postglobal Perspectives on Medieval Art and Art History” project undertaken with the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and sponsored by the Getty Connecting Art Histories program.
Dr. Adam S. Cohen is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Toronto, where he has taught since 2003. While completing his PhD at The Johns Hopkins University (1995), he worked in the Manuscripts Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum. His research interests include illuminated manuscripts, monastic art, and the use of visual culture as a tool in Christian-Jewish polemics. He has just completed a three-year Getty Connecting Art Histories project with the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. With Linda Safran, he is the current editor of Gesta.
The event is free and open to the public. Reception to follow.