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Walker-Ames Lecture – Alexander Nagel

Submitted on October 6, 2015 - 12:17pm

Room 120, Kane Hall
7:30pm | Thursday, October 15, 2015
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Title:
The Renaissance Elsewhere

Description:
Imagine a whole tradition of art devoted to representing other places. Italian art in the period between circa 1300 and circa 1500—what is called the Renaissance—is characterized by its extraordinary openness to the world. In this talk, Professor Nagle will propose the spectacular and improbable rise of painting in this period from a subordinate to a superintendent art. Painting was vaulted to a new status because it was the medium most able to take in information from other media and to represent those other media (textiles, furnishings, books, metalware, ceramics, sculptures, buildings, etc.).

During his talk, we will travel together through works made by Giotto, Gentile da Fabriano, Antonio Filarete, Piero della Francesca, Andrea Mantegna, and Giovanni Bellini.

Speaker:
Alexander Nagel is a professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He has published articles in Art Bulletin, Artforum, Brooklyn Rail, Cabinet Magazine, London Review of Books, Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, and several other venues. His book Michelangelo and the Reform of Art (Cambridge University Press, 2000) won the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize from the Renaissance Society of America for the best book in Renaissance studies. His book, The Controversy of Renaissance Art (University of Chicago Press, 2011) won the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Association for “especially distinguished book in the history of art.” Anachronic Renaissance, co-authored with Christopher Wood (Zone Books, 2010), has appeared in French and Italian translations. His Medieval Modern: Art out of Time, was published by Thames and Hudson in 2012. He is currently working on questions of place and displacement in Renaissance art.

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