August 5, 2024
European Art

Clark Art Conference on African Art in European Discourse / iBerkshires.com



WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Oct. 19, and Friday, Oct. 20, the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute hosts a Clark Conference, The Fetish A(r)t Work: African Objects in the Making of European Art History 1500–1900. 


 


The program begins at 9 am in the Clark’s auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. The program is free and open to the public.


 


According to a press release:


 


The conference brings together scholars across the humanities who examine the making and “invention” of African art in European discourse. Convened by scholar and former Clark Professor Anne Lafont (The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences [EHESS], Paris), this conference delves into diverse writings on African objects and interrogates various orientations that transformed these objects, from ritual artifacts and fetishes to works that circulated on the art market and were held in private collections and public museums. The discussion encompasses global art history, natural history, travel literature, ships’ inventories, African geography, comparative religion texts, sales and private collection catalogs, and technical treatises. 


 


Participants include:


 


Anne Lafont (convener), professor


École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris


 


Jean-Luc Aka-Evy, philosopher and art historian


Congo-Brazzaville


 


Alexander Bevilacqua, associate professor of history


Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts


 


Yaëlle Biro, independent scholar and curator


Paris


 


Justin Brown, Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow


Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC


 


Joshua I. Cohen, associate professor of art history


City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center, New York 


 


Roberto Conduru, endowed distinguished professor of art history


Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas


 


Cécile Fromont, professor of history of art


Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut


 


Gabriele Genge, professor


Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany


 


Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor and Chair of English


Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey


 


Alexandre Girard-Muscagorry, curator


Musée de la Musique (Philharmonie de Paris)


 


Didier Houénoudé


Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Godomey, Benin


 


Daniel H. Leonard, assistant professor


College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia


 


Risham Majeed, associate professor of art, art history, and architecture


Ithaca College, South Hill, New York


 


Lionel Manga, writer and cultural critic


Douala, Cameroon


 


Matthew Francis Rarey, associate professor of African and Black Atlantic art history


Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio


 

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