Peter Chametzky will discuss his book, "Turks, Jews, and Other Germans in Contemporary Art." He will be joined in conversation by Reinhold Heller. This event is presented by the Seminary Co-op.
This presentation focuses on the production and modification of visual and material culture as a form of world-making by considering case studies from the Tupac Amaru and Katari Rebellions of the southern Andes (1780s). I explore the parallel ad-hoc strategies enacted by both rebels and counterinsurgent forces to manipulate the visual world in the service of political projects, including pictorial effacement (the repainting of portraits, the modification of material objects); the repurposing of power-laden objects associated with colonial authori
Image Details: Asmus Jacob Carstens, Bacchanalian Dance, 1784-86.
Copyright: Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Bestand Museen
Join Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and the College, and Adjunct Curator at the Smart Museum of Art, for an in-gallery conversation about artist Gerhard Richter’s work, 7. Dez. 2014.
In a recent interview with UChicago News, Wu Hung (Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and the College) is recognized as a world-renowned scholar for his contributions to Chinese art history.
“MetaMedia” is an online symposium at the University of Chicago that revisits the question of self-reference and self-criticism in both old and new media. Across three presentations, we ask: What does it mean to think of “medium specificity” in our twenty-first century transmedia ecology? How do media evolve? What is their relation to technology, social conditions, and political movements? And then, more precisely, what can we learn from media about media?
"Reconstituting the Japanese Housewife: Idemitsu Mako’s Charged Televisual Fields in Kiyoko’s Situation (1989)"
Speaker: Toby Wu, MAPH Student, UChicago
"Objects as Political Symbols: Imperialist Merchandise in Mu Shiying and Shi Zhecun’s Modernist Fiction"
Speaker: Zhengqian Li (MAPH Student)
Discussant: Haun Saussy (Professor of Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, and Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago)
"Flipping Over and Stretching Out: Reading an Accordion-Fold Painting"
Speaker: Lucien Sun (Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History)
Discussant: Shiqiu Liu (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Melbourne)
Scrivener is a word-processing platform that goes beyond Word/Google Docs to allow users to manage and reorganize their documents, notes, metadata, images, and outlines, in addition to in-app writing. Scrivener has a lot of features and workflows that can be useful for whatever you’re writing, whether that’s class papers, your dissertation, an article, or a book project.