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[Artwork Above: Enrique Chagoya]

Pre-Columbian Art through the Eyes of Modern and Contemporary Artists (Lecture series hosted and sponsored by the Neuberger Museum and Art History Department at Purchase College)

Pre-Columbian Art through the Eyes of Modern and Contemporary Artists is a lecture series organized by Patrice Giasson held in the Neuberger Museum and created in tandem with a seminar entitled Pre-Columbian Aesthetics in Modern Latin American Art offered in the Art History Department at Purchase College. This series will address the multiple relationships that modern or contemporary artists have established with Pre-Columbian art. Renowned artists from Latin America as well as university scholars will lecture on the legacies of Pre-Columbian aesthetics. The Museum welcomes both the college community and the greater metropolitan area community. Free of charge, lectures will be held in the Museum Study on selected Monday’s afternoons at 4:00 PM throughout the semester. See lecture series dates starting September 14...

Sept. 14, 2009:

[Artist: Betsabée Romero]
Betsabée Romero Artist based in Mexico City
Lecture Title: The Archaeological Imprint of Speed: A Contemporary Reading of Pre-Columbian Cylindrical Seals

Sept. 21, 2009:
Alessandra Russo Art Historian, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University, New York
Lecture Title: Unexpected Traditions : Pre-Columbian Feather Art in the Work of Three Contemporary Mexican Artists.

Oct. 12, 2009:
Adam Sellen Archaeologist, Peninsular Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, National University of Mexico in Merida
Lecture Title: The Face that Launched a Thousand Fakes: The Story of the Greatest Archaeological Faker of the Twentieth Century

Oct. 26, 2009:
Alejandro Anreus Art historian, William Paterson University, Wayne
Lecture Title: Siqueiros Versus Torres García: Polemicizing Pre-Columbian Art

Nov. 2, 2009:
Anna Blume Art Historian, Department of the History of Art,Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, New York
Lecture Title: Painted Numerology: Alfred Jensen and the Art of Maya
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Nov. 9, 2009:
Enrique Chagoya Artist and Professor. Stanford University of San Francisco
Lecture Title: The Enlightened Savage

Nov. 16, 2009

[Artist: Nadín Ospina]
Nadin Ospina Artist based in Bogotá. Professor Jorge Tadeo Lozano University of Bogotá (Colombia)
Lecture Title: Ritual and Consumption: Pre-Historic Art in the Gaze of Contemporaneity




Nov. 30, 2009:

[Artist: Nicolás De Jesús]
Nicolás De Jesús Artist from the Nahua Village of Ameyaltepec (Mexico)
Lecture Title: Traditional Amate Painting: A New Support for Modern Social Struggle

[Information: Courtesy Patrice Giasson, Neuberger Museum/Art History Program at Purchase College]