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"Linda Nochlin, 'Art Historian Engagée'"
Abstract: American art historian Linda Nochlin (1931-2017) spent a career refuting the universality of dominant artistic discourses and listening to the voice of the "other" in its many incarnations. Her dialectical and dialogical approach to her subject is characteristic of her engagement, a word borrowed from the French by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth to describe Nochlin's commitment to always producing knowledge in the service of justice. In this talk, we will explore facets of her pursuit of an art history that is engagée. A driving force behind her research, this engagement can also become a liberating force in the renewal of our discipline.
Bio: Émilie Oléron Evans is an art historian based at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research currently focuses on the respective and combined roles of gender dynamics and of translation in the evolution of art history as a discipline and as an institution. Her second monograph, on the reception and the legacy of feminist art historian Linda Nochlin, is coming out in January 2025.
This is a hybrid event. Please email karl.kinsella@abdn.ac.uk if you would like the link to join us online via Microsoft Teams.
- Speaker
- Émilie Oléron Evans, Queen Mary University of London
- Venue
- CB009, 50/52 College Bounds