This talk will examine the reclining Buddha and Vishnu figures sculpted into the landscape of Angkor’s Kulen Mountains as embodying a site-specific re-birthing of the world. ...
Professor Elina Gertsman will discuss the Hammelburg Mahzor, a Jewish festival book completed in Lower Franconia in the middle of the fourteenth century. ...
What happens if the history of Russian art is retold from the point of view of female artists? Is it possible to overturn the narrative of artistic progress driven by the male artistic “geniuses” and instead, reclaim and celebrate the influence of fe...
This session of Addressing Images is based on the work of Singapore photographer Yip Cheong Fun (1903-1989) in the 1960s and 1970s. We will discuss how Yip achieved 美感 (mei gan), or a feeling of beauty, that he along with other “amateur” practitioner...
During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy world of fashion: from the curiously common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to perfume bottles in the form of a dismembered torso, to dress pur...
