Institute for Advanced Study Announces 2018–19 Art History Lecture Series

The 2018–19 Art History Lecture Series, presented by the Institute for Advanced Study, will feature eminent scholars whose recent work will provide an illuminating glimpse into current research in art history.

The season will kick off with a lecture on Wednesday, December 12, 2018, by Éric Michaud, former Member in the School of Historical Studies and Directeur d’études at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. The talk to be given by Michaud, “The Barbarian Invasions: A Genealogy of the History of Art,” will reveal how artistic objects have been connected with racial and ethnic groups throughout history. He will pay particular attention to the role played by this racial/ethnic factor in the origin of art history as a scholarly discipline during the 19th century, when the “barbarian” invasions of the 5th century in Europe were examined anew. He will describe how the racial and ethnic links woven between artists and their works are still active today, notably in the increasingly global art market.

Additional lectures will follow in the spring of 2019:

March 1
Fluidity and Sedimentation in Rembrandt’s Christ Carrying the Cross
Nicola Suthor, Professor in the History of Art, Yale University

March 29
Titian’s Bride Stripped Bare
Maria Loh, Professor in Art History, CUNY Hunter College

April 24
Sketching, Etching, Weaving, Messing Around: Impressionist Surfaces from Manet to Gauguin
Rich Brettell, Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetic Studies, Edith O’Donnell Distinguished Chair, The University of Texas at Dallas

The Art History Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Sherwin Seligsohn.

Lectures will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall. Admission is free and open to the public, but registration is required. For more information on upcoming public lectures and events at the Institute, visit www.ias.edu/events.