Art History and Visual Culture Program and Art History and the Visual Culture Program Present

Style and Race: Medieval and African Art at the Trocadéro Palace

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This presentation explores how medieval art, and particularly Romanesque art, came to be understood as “primitive” and “originary” through the museums of the Trocadéro (the Museum of Comparative Sculpture and the Museum of Ethnography). Theories of racial hierarchies were brought to bear on this “primitive” period in France to the extent that theoreticians’ engagements with the Romanesque furnished them with language and a model of comparison for the great variety of non-Western and mostly nonnaturalistic styles that were brought back to Europe from the future colonies during the same period .

This public lecture is being offered in association with the course Race and the Museum.

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For more information, call 845-758-7163, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102

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