On the Move - Artists, Ideas, Objects - Dr Bart Pushaw

Aisha Bornø, Sophie Rhodes, Lea Viehweger

On the Move: Artists, Ideas, Objects - Dr Bart Pushaw

Cambridge History of Art Graduate Seminar Series, Lent term 2022.Dr Bart Pushaw, University of Copenhagen: 'Indulgent Images: Inuit Artists and Colonial Consumption in the Global Arctic'Bart Pushaw is a Mads Øvlisen Fellow in Art History at the University of Copenhagen. His research examines issues of race, coloniality, and environment in global art histories, particularly in the Circumpolar North and Central America. His writing has spanned diverse subjects, including the complex temporalities of early Inuit printmaking, photography and Sámi activism, and Afro-Indigenous ecologies of eighteenth-century Panama. Alongside his first manuscript Indulgent Images, he is also the co-editor of forthcoming volumes Unfinished Histories: The Visual Politics of Coloniality, The Material Legacies of Nordic Empire, as well as Art and Mobility Across the Baltic Sea.'On the Move: Artists, Ideas, Objects' explores the topic of transnationalism and cross-culturalism in the field of History of Art. The seminar series brings together speakers working across a range of different time periods, materials, and geographies, inviting an exploration of themes such as migration, networks of artist exchange, colonialism, trade and indigeneity. The series will run for seven weeks and will be held in-person in the Department of History of Art, with the exception of two talks (2nd February and 16th February) which will be held on Zoom. The in-person events will be followed by a drinks reception. The schedule will be as follows: 2nd February: Dr Lianming Wang, Visiting Professor in Global Art History, University of Cambridge, ‘Transoceanic Trade Repictured: Coromandel Lacquer Screen and the Mobile Image in Global Exchange’ (via zoom)9th February: Dr Susan Foister, The National Gallery, ‘Exhibiting Travel: Dürer and his Journeys of a Lifetime’16th February: Dr Bart Pushaw, University of Copenhagen, ‘Indulgent Images: Inuit Artists and Colonial Consumption in the Global Arctic’ (via zoom)23rd February: Professor Bénédicte Savoy, title to be confirmed2nd March: Dr Scott Nethersole, Courtauld Institute of Art, ‘Fra Angelico’s The Miracle of the Black Leg: Skin Colour and the Perception of Ethiopians in Florence before 1450’9th March: Artist Talk: Sutapa Biswas ‘The Politics of Aesthetics: Painting with Light’, followed by a Q&A with Elizabeth Brown of Kettle’s Yard.16th March: Dr Tessa Murdoch, Former Rosalinde and Albert Gilbert Curator, Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, ‘A Springboard to the New World, the Huguenot Diaspora and the impact of Huguenot Material Culture in the Americas 1680-1830’This series is convened by Aisha Bornø (almb3@cam.ac.uk), Sophie Rhodes (sr872@cam.ac.uk) and Lea Viehweger (liv22@cam.ac.uk)

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