An Evening about Art and Race

launching L’Art et la Race: L’Africain (tout) contre l’oeil des Lumières

The Courtauld Institute invites you to:

A round-table to celebrate the publication of Anne Lafont’s major new book

 L’Art et la Race: L’Africain (tout) contre l’oeil des Lumières (2019)

and to mark the exhibition of Le Modèle noir at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

The book will be launched by Dr Mechthild Fend (UCL) and Dr Esther Chadwick (Courtauld), followed by conversation between Professor Lafont (EHESS), Professor David Bindman (UCL) and Sam McGuire (Tate) about the staging of the exhibition.