The
eighth lecture in the Handwerker Gallery Critical Forum
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Carol Duncan
Death in the Museum
Thursday, December
7
5:00 p.m.
 The
lecture explores the use of the art museums as a form of donor
memorial, a practice taken up by collectors in both Europe and
America in the 19th century. Related to this development are new
burial practices
and changing attitudes toward death.
— Carol Duncan
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Carol
Duncan teaches art history at Ramapo College of New Jersey. She is
well known as one of the pioneers of a new social-political approach
to art history and criticism and has been one of the strongest feminist
voices in "new art history." Her works include The Pursuit of Pleasure:
The Rococo Revival in French Romantic Art (New York: Garland,
1975); The Aesthetics of Power: Essays in the Critical History
of Art (Cambridge University Press, 1992), which was selected
for the New Jersey Humanities Book Award by the New Jersey Council
for the Humanities and translated into Italian as L’Estetica del
Potere, with a preface by Angela Vettese (Nike Publishers, 1999);
Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (London: Routledge,
1995), which was awarded a grant for completion from the American
Council of Learned Societies and translated into Chinese by Wang Ya-Ke
(Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing). |
The lecture is free and open to all.
As an educational institution, the Handwerker Gallery
seeks to create a challenging environment that enhances critical understanding
of both art production and art consumption. To meet that goal and to disrupt
the alleged institutional neutrality of an exhibiting space, the gallery
is offering a series of lectures and discussions-the Handwerker Gallery
Critical Forum. The forum aims to expose the different strategies used
to produce images, thereby helping art history students and the larger
community become perceptive critics. Noted art historians, critics, and
scholars will share their current research on and thoughts about issues
of representation, working together toward "the place where the questions
have to be asked, and where they cannot be asked in the old way"
(T. J. Clark).
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