Free Public Lecture: Alpha and Omega, or “The Boundary of Our Orient” will be held Monday 14 March 5.45pm-7.15pm.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Alexander Nagel, Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York City.
The topic draws on art historian Professor Nagel’s recent research on ideas of Asia and America in Renaissance Europe. The decades after 1492 brought Asia closer to Europe than it had ever been. The art, cartography, and literature of the period we call the High Renaissance expanded to imagine a new convergence of worlds where East rejoined West and New neighboured Old.
Alexander Nagel is a Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York City. His most recent books include Medieval Modern (2012), The Controversy of Renaissance Art (2011), and, with Christopher Wood, Anachronic Renaissance (2010). He is contributor to both Cabinet magazine and the London Review of Books, and recent essays and debates have appeared Artforum, October, and in the catalogue for the Whitney Museum’s retrospective on Jeff Koons.
Monday, 14 March 2016
5.45pm – 7:15pm
Theatre A
Elisabeth Murdoch Building
The University of Melbourne
PARKVILLE VIC 3010
Admission is free.
Bookings are required.
Seating is limited.
To register visit: http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/nagel
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