The Art of Curation Lecture Series "White Fabulation: a prehistory of the 'culture war’"
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
- Location: The Braggs Lecture Theatre, The Braggs Building, North Terrace Campus
- Cost: Free
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Join us for another exciting The Art of Curation Lecture Series with Professor Dan Hicks visiting from The University of Oxford and Pitt Rivers Museum.
How might we best describe the phenomenon through which art and culture was weaponised from the 1880s to the 1920s: from White supremacist statues in the streets to stolen objects in museums, and from the preservation of heritage to the founding of university departments of anthropology and archaeology. This talk sets current ideas over a so-called 'culture war' in longer-term perspective.
Professor Dan Hicks