Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art: THE BODY OF A NATION

2 May 17:00
Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College, OX1 2HB

Suicide in white and black: Thomas Cole’s Destruction and the American empire

Image: Thomas Cole, Destruction (detail) from Course of Empire, 1836

Image: Thomas Cole, Destruction (detail) from Course of Empire, 1836

Professor Miguel de Baca
Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art

02 May - Suicide in white and black: Thomas Cole’s Destruction and the American empire
09 May - Skin and absence: the radical ceramics and poetry of the enslaved Dave the Potter
16 May - Modernism disfigured: cult and illicit ritual in New Mexico in the works of Georgia O’Keeffe and Martha Graham
23 May - The great disappearing George Washington: history and the head of state in contemporary American art
Last lecture followed by a drinks reception

 

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