This roundtable explores the role of printmaking in tangibly shaping and challenging ideas of racial difference. Motivated by colonial encounters and the later, widespread institution of chattel slavery in the Atlantic world, early modern Europeans and their inheritors sought to materialize race to ground social hierarchy in physical, bodily difference. The participants of this conversation will consider two important strands of recent art-historical scholarship on materiality and the production of race, exploring the question: how have the constitution of matrix and print shaped different conceptions of surfaces and bodies?
Participants include Horace Ballard (Harvard Art Museums), Layla Bermeo (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Jennifer Chuong (Harvard University), Jase Clark (Raven Fine Art Editions), Thadeus Dowad (Northwestern University), Kailani Polzak (University of California, Santa Cruz), and Curlee Raven Holton (Lafayette College and Raven Fine Art Editions).
Presented live in the Clark's auditorium as well as livestreamed. The conversation will be followed by a reception in the Manton Reading Room.
The event is free, but advance registration to receive the livestream link is required. Click the link next to tickets to reserve.
Image: Joseph Callender after Sydney Parkinson and Richard Bernard Godfrey, Plate 1 in Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1774, 1773. Engraving, 6 7/8 x 8 3/4 in. Collection of American Antiquarian Society. Courtesy of American Antiquarian Society.
This roundtable explores the role of printmaking in tangibly shaping and challenging ideas of racial difference. Motivated by colonial encounters and the later, widespread institution of chattel slavery in the Atlantic world, early modern Europeans and their inheritors sought to materialize race to ground social hierarchy in physical, bodily difference. The participants of this conversation will consider two important strands of recent art-historical scholarship on materiality and the production of race, exploring the question: how have the constitution of matrix and print shaped different conceptions of surfaces and bodies?
Participants include Horace Ballard (Harvard Art Museums), Layla Bermeo (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Jennifer Chuong (Harvard University), Jase Clark (Raven Fine Art Editions), Thadeus Dowad (Northwestern University), Kailani Polzak (University of California, Santa Cruz), and Curlee Raven Holton (Lafayette College and Raven Fine Art Editions).
Presented live in the Clark's auditorium as well as livestreamed. The conversation will be followed by a reception in the Manton Reading Room.
The event is free, but advance registration to receive the livestream link is required. Click the link next to tickets to reserve.
Image: Joseph Callender after Sydney Parkinson and Richard Bernard Godfrey, Plate 1 in Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1774, 1773. Engraving, 6 7/8 x 8 3/4 in. Collection of American Antiquarian Society. Courtesy of American Antiquarian Society.